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Open Poetry #26

Dad Again

waldopepper
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since 2003-03-18

Posts 157
Tennessee, USA

0 posted 2003-06-04 03:04 PM

For a little while
I got to be Dad again.
For a little while
the man before me
was the son he was then.

As pleasantries and polite talk
slowly slipped away,
the child returned
perched on my knee.

Wonderment at full brace
riding every word I said,
for the faces held the sight
of innocence between men.

A memory burn,
slow into the night
held the seconds in check
of what was long past learned.

"Do you remember, Dad?
Do you know what I mean?
Can you recognize who I am
in the clasp of our hands?"

This grip of sheer might
breaking distant disguise,
held thoughts left unspoken
and a smile a mile wide.

"These tears are my voice
Son, poor means to an end,
only stay in this moment
and I'll be your Dad again."

But the moment was past
in the broken embrace,
as we slipped into stations
that left with swift grace.

We went our own ways
as has always been done,
only this time I was Dad
and he was my Son.

passing shadows
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1 posted 2003-06-05 04:59 AM

touching

waldopepper
Member

since 2003-03-18

Posts 157
Tennessee, USA

2 posted 2003-06-06 04:44 PM

Thanks Dixie. I appreciate your reading and commenting.

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