This is called-- this is written for my son.
My oldest son has been diagnosed as schizophrenic
and that's very difficult for other people who
have this problem.
It is very difficult for a mother,
you know: what do-- you do?
So this poem though it was written
about Absalom, the story of Absalom in the Bible?
It was really me thinking about my son.
Oh, Absalom, my son, my son, even as I turned myself
from you, I long to hold you, oh, my wild haired son
running in the wilderness away from me from us into a thicket
you could not foresee.
If you had stayed, I feared you would kill me.
If you left, I feared you would die.
Oh, my son, my son, what does the Lord require?