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Father's Day |
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JP Senior Member
since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343Loomis, CA 
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Hours spent, building the crib, painting the room, dealing with your pregnant mom, 8 months along, in August. Days and nights, with you on my mind, measles, chicken pox, (you shared those with me, didn't you?) mumps and flu as well. Taking off work, to see you sing, school plays, recitals, karate matches. Weekends spent traveling vacations, softball tournaments. Working two jobs, to give you the house, the clothes you need, food to eat, and a bit of cash for your pocket. Late nights spent, waiting for you, driving the streets trying to find you because you did not call. All the pain, work love and joy run through my mind on this day, my day. All I have done for you, all I have endured for you, I've done for my soul, for my heart, out of love. On this day, this day set aside for sons and daughters to show thier love for fathers you show your love to me, with a tie. Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn. JP "Everything is your own damn fault, if you are any good." E. Hemmingway |
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*passion-fruit* Junior Member
since 2000-06-09
Posts 12 |
Wow this really hit me!!! It really makes you stop and think about all that your parents do for you. It touched on something that most people don't touch on. (if that makes any sense) Well, I love this and it makes me stop and think how I should show a little more appreciation to my Father on this day. I think I'll go tell him I love him. Thanx!! |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
I now really bad for getting my day socks. But I often wonder if i can ever repay my parents for what they have done for me. Maybe that day will come and I hope I am there. A powerful poem. As passion-fruit* said the poem really does hit you. I feel a pang of guilt. THanks for reminding us prodical sons of our place. A wonderful poem, sir. ------------------------ "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time". Baltimore Grotto "To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." E.E Cummings. "Art is a lie which makes us realise the truth." Pablo Picasso "We Irish are too poetical to be poets, we are a nation of brilliant failures" Oscar Wilde ----- |
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JP Senior Member
since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343Loomis, CA |
I certainly did not want to inspire guilt  Any true parent knows, and will tell you, that what they do for their children is born of love - not responsibility, nor desire for compensation. However, it is nice to be able to wake up on those days set aside for parents and have your children show you that they do realize and appreciate what you do. Today, I recieved a chocolate cigar from my youngest... is was broken, and he did eat half of it... but he did it out of love for me.... good present all in all. Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn. JP "Everything is your own damn fault, if you are any good." E. Hemmingway |
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