Are you keeping it together?
when your wife has given up
all her fuel spent
wanting to join her
dead mother

Are you keeping it together?
when your daughter
has turned into a lovesick,
dumb *****
her dreams, aspirations
vaporised

Are you keeping it together?
when your son
is as withdrawn
as ever
and isolated, sheltering
in his own little control room

Are you keeping it together?
Oh father, dear father
your false positive
is given away by your
little explosions
Are you alarmed that your
little family is falling out?

Oh this nuclear family
so full of potential
but we've been so marred
by our little tragedies
Too much, too much
the pressure
we put on each other
We are about to BURST