On Golden Pond

Check out the moment when Jane Fonda tells her dying father,

that she thinks he doesn’t like her,

she’s lonely, always has been.

A cold man, Henry found himself through his roles.

Jane’s mother, his first wife, killed herself.

Left parentless in one of the worst ways –

with a father still living but showing no interest,

Jane orchestrates a scripted moment – with Katherine Hepburn, loons,

where her father, the actor, is forced to react to her words of loss.

The only way this daughter could connect with her father –

in a world he understood, with an audience of witnesses.

Lucky her.