The leaking ship

My heart breaks
as history repeats itself
and two more children
wander dazed and blinking
into their parents' world

Another mother goes it alone
Another father looks on from a distance

And another deposit account is opened
in the joint names of heartache and insecurity

The sun sets beneath the storm
to rise again on a smouldering dawn
where wind fans the embers
of lingering hurt and unlearned lessons

And the leaking ship rolls along
through old familiar waters.