In the '66 Malibu (Reposted from 07/2012)

In the 66’ Malibu

By

Lisa A.Williams

My dad, singing,

“I’m So Lonesome

I Could Cry”.

How the wind

loved to tousle

her thick dark hair

as my mother

leaned her face

toward the evening sky,

blue eyes

closed to the darkness.

Me

in the back seat,

wishing dad would

choose another song

when he sang

the loneliness

into safekeeping,

only to be taken

by his voice into

“I Can’t Help it

if I’m Still in Love With You”.

I chimed in with

“How Far is Heaven, I want

to go, I want my daddy,

I miss him so”.

As the car pulled gently

into the driveway,

he finished his rendition

of

“Make the World go Away”.

Now

all these years later,

my parents gone,

the 66’ Malibu

but a memory,

I wonder did the love

they had for each other

make them so lonely

they cried until

the world did go away,

and did my soul

know I would later

sing the same song

about my dad,

holding that heaven

in my heart

while missing

my mother’s eyes,

hoping one day

she would truly

see me?