Who wants to follow that?
When my children were little
one of them would disappear
by covering their face with their hands
The logic being that if they couldn’t see you
you couldn’t see them.
Often this would happen
when they were embarrassed
or ashamed
of something that they had done.
I poured my poem out into the silence
of the room tonight and heard
Who wants to follow that?
No-one raised their hand.
Mark W. Ó Brien
31December2025
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