Maybe Once He Did by Prospero2013

A man once told me
he was able to control
what happened
all around him.
Maybe once
he did.
Maybe once
it happened.
But gradually
ever so slowly
he lost his influence.
He stepped out
of his door
this one morning.
He was
already in trouble.
It was the consequence
of a new inheritance system.
Genetic behaviours.
Why
leave him alone
at all?
Why leave him
with me?
A man once told me.
Maybe once
he did.