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Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

0 posted 2001-07-26 03:07 PM

*Repost from Open #12, for my Dad*

hello,
I know that we have this conversation every year
and every year, I alaways seem to ask you the same questions
          are you proud of me?
          did I make the right decisions?
          what would you have done?
of course, I'll never really know, but it's nice to ask
you see,
               I tried to be someone that you could be proud of
               tried to remember the lessons that you taught
and sure, I made mistakes, wrong decisions, we all do
           you did. . . or so I've been told
and it wasn't that I was trying to emulate you
           because I couldn't be you, I could only be me
           carrying your name with me down life's road
it's the one thing of yours that I can never lose
it will always be with me
it speaks to me
so that when I ask the questions

there are always

answers. . .

thanks Dad. . .

Me, age 2, and my Dad

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

[This message has been edited by Sven (edited 07-26-2001).]

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2001-07-26 03:11 PM

I like it Sven...James

Corinne
Member Ascendant

since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

2 posted 2001-07-26 03:15 PM

A very touching tribute to your Dad, Sven.

Corinne

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

3 posted 2001-07-26 03:16 PM

yep, happy for you that there are answers

nice form and message

Lady In White

Member Elite

since 2001-02-12

Posts 2799
USA

4 posted 2001-07-26 03:25 PM

It was time this came back for a visit with us....

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

5 posted 2001-07-26 03:29 PM

What incredible timing, Sveetie...I love this one as you know! (and by the way--I've decided to carry my father's name as well...that's right, the wedding's off again!)

This is a touching poem Sven.

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

6 posted 2001-07-26 03:36 PM

yes..a very nice tribute...

very nicely done..

walker
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since 2001-02-11

Posts 2240
Florida

7 posted 2001-07-26 03:44 PM

Beautiful, and the pictures I loved too.

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

8 posted 2001-07-26 04:49 PM

Great poem, Sven, and I looked at the pics, strangely just today I started trying to do a page of old family photos, but can't make them small enough! You sure were a cute little guy.

Sandra

Victoria

Member Ascendant

since 2000-08-12

Posts 5869

9 posted 2001-07-26 05:35 PM

sweet pictures...loved them ...you were certainly a cute little boy.

~Victoria~

Every child is an artist. The challenge is to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

Titia Geertman
Member Ascendant

since 2001-05-07

Posts 5182
Netherlands

10 posted 2001-07-26 05:44 PM

A sweet tribute to your dad Sven, really like it.

Titia

A rose is a rose is a rose...I guess...
Feel free to use the pictures on my website. http://communities.msn.com/Titiasplace/

Auguste

Member Elite

since 2000-02-16

Posts 3953
By the sea

11 posted 2001-07-26 05:46 PM

This is very nice, Sven. I lost my father exactly twenty years ago and yet I still ask him these questions. Thank you for helping me remember my own dad.

Michael

Michael Auguste~
There is more depth to the heart than the mind can comprehend and it only has boundaries when we choose to fence it in.

athena4
Senior Member

since 2000-12-10

Posts 622

12 posted 2001-07-26 06:31 PM

Sven,
A loving tribute to your Father. And you need not ask the questions. He IS proud of you, and you have done all the dreams that he hoped for you....And P.S.,In the pictures, you are just an adorable little boy!....
Love, Elise

JLR
Senior Member

since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

13 posted 2001-07-26 07:16 PM

The first picture...there is something very similar in the tilt of your fathers head to your own in the pic here. Touched by both words and pictures. Thanks!

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

14 posted 2001-07-26 09:25 PM

Thank you all my friends. . . I just thought that I'd share this with all of you again, and with some of you for the first time. . . it's been 23 years since he's been gone. . . and I still wonder. . . but, I know that he's there. . . and that he speaks to me. . .

Thank you all again. . . and I'm glad that you enjoyed the pictures. . .

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