Poem -- Restored to Sanity

Restored to Sanity

by Steven Fales

I watched as the inept one

Got custody and control.

I kept coming back

Watching over her shoulder

To make sure the kids were alright

As I was vilified.

They were not alright.

As my own parents

Maligned and undermined

My proven abilities,

There was nothing I could do

But watch in anguish.

Even when I was high

I was watching and waiting,
Biding my time unbidden.

And when the time came

To stop waiting and do/be/have

I quit binging

And the capable one

Who had always been

Rose to the occasion

And took over.

No custody needed.

That’s when everything finally

Turned out alright

For everyone.
The queer one wasn’t the queerest

And the queen became a king

Unbidden but bidden.