🌿🌻Triolet for Thursday 33 – Estrangement🌻🌿

#triolet #poetry #French

It is all too easy to parent blame
Instead of taking responsibility 
For your own mistakes, it's a shame.
It is all too easy to parent blame.
Forgiveness is the name of this game.
Estrangement creates inaccessibility. 
It is too easy to parent blame,
To escape taking responsibility.

Months become years, then decades,
Your parents won't live forever.
When anger and blame fades,
Months become years, then decades.
Estrangement builds high barracades
Time to forgive and never say never.
Months become years, then decades,
Your parents won't live forever.

The time for reconciliation is now!
Your parents love will forgive you.
Forgive them and make it a vow, 
The time for reconciliation is now!
Others' opinions you shouldn't allow.
It's your farrow and it's your plough.
The time for reconciliation is now!
Your parents love will forgive you.

©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2026

**This is dedicated to all the parents of estranged adult children. There are hundreds of thousands of us which I didn't know until I became one. To the adult children I implore, forgive and be forgiven and keep your own counsel and don't let other family members influence you. Quiet the noise and seek your inner voice in the silence of your heart **