No Heroes
Heard Billy Bragg sing Tank Park Salute live tonight. Although it came out 9/10 years before my Dads (step and biological) would die, it is the song I associate with their deaths, less than 11 months apart. Hearing it live is always something of a punch to the heart.
No Heroes
Neither of you
Were ever heroes.
Ever aspired to
Heroics, not
Even in your
Wildest imaginations.
Well, maybe there,
In the wild space
Between sobriety
And inebriation.
Even then, you clung
To safer waters,
Not the unknown
Shoals of bravery.
Still, you were
The closest I had
To an in-person hero.
At the very least
I so wanted you
To be my hero.
All that Remains - April 6, 2013, Portland, OR
In death
I have nothing
To offer.
No songs
To sing.
No salute
In tribute to
Your passing.
Nothing but
Grief
And longing,
Wishing for
The hero you
Never could be.
Never
Tried to be.
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