For Gabo

I remember my extended family
A patriarch and his wife and children
Grandchildren, teen toddlers
Gathering for a big feast

Today they are done
No more patriarch, destroyed
By unlawful wedding 
Unsettling divorce
Drugs, disease, death
Forgotten dreams
Ignorance

The colonel was my grandpa
He died and life goes on
For everywone to live
In solitude.

#Hari2DC #smithsonian #marquez #100yearsofsolitude (at National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)