no matter how much
you say you care
about him, Jon know
you don't, Jon don’t
know nothing like
“the love of God”
forgetting that
be the same love
that killed y'all
grandfather.
when Jon say
he don't need you,
he saying that
with his mouth.
Jon nailed
to a cross.
you holding
bloodied
hammers.
Jon getting out
the psych ward
tomorrow and
you the walls
he pray
he never
see again.

                    you don't know               my family:
                    the things we've              been taught to keep
                    buried;                              our mouths shut.