Fault

Just off the bus,
rushing to school after a rainy night,
the plastic cap on the top of my wife’s blue umbrella fell off
and rolled into a grating in the sidewalk.
It was not my fault.
I had no idea it was loose.
I thought of Yeh-yeh who died at 94 -
all the mistakes that were made,
the wrong decisions I made and
how I cannot say, for Yeh-yeh,
it was not my fault.