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Leather covered, finger worn
Name
inscribed by hand
It holds my gaze, affects my heart
My reverence
it commands
Half a century it has lived,
Kept it’s
secrets well
My insides churn at what I’ll know
Or feel when
pages tell
I hold it close, absorb, caress
Have him once
again
Crossing time I love him now
And lose
myself in then
I look into the mirror
See a face my
father wore
I look into my heart and hear
A voice that
is no more.
Sights and sounds of yesteryear
A legacy of
life
With love and awe my mind is filled
With tears my
eyes are rife.
Lessons that he taught me then
Guide me
still today
His soothing voice my ears do hear
With me he’ll
always stay.
I have not lived a single day
From one that
saw his passing
Without the loss I’ve deeply felt
The memories
amassing.
The pain I feel, the tears I shed
From separation
astound me
I cannot know, but yet I know
He continues
to surround me.
He is my mentor, is my friend
His
gentleness assures me
His love of all his fellow man
A model that
allures me.
I’ve tried to live in such a way
The world,
would better be
His principles I’ve made my goal
We’re both
anomaly.
What ere the world has in store
His presence
will assist me
To meet the challenge with aplomb
With dignity,
the gist see.
His light burns bright inside my heart
I’ll always
keep it lit
He’ll live as long as I shall live
My love will never quit.
The past is prologue to the future
I have heard
it said
Perhaps my children will, for me
Feel what I,
for him have said
But I shall love them all, regardless
My father’s
principle keeping
Until the day my thoughts do end
And nothing’s
left, but sleeping.
You left this world so long ago
Never did you
see
My children growing straight and strong
Or pride of
them from me
A chair is empty every joy
A space
unfilled, a void
Oh mother mine you missed so much
So much to give destroyed
My memories of you are scant
My
children’s, none at all
The gift of generations flowing
Unable to
recall
I need you now to hold my hand
Be here to
know my worth
Share the things that came long after
The sons I
did give birth
You’d be proud I know you would
Of all that
I’ve become
And smile at all your grandchildren
A credit
every one
Now that I have more than years
To temper
what I know
I wish you’d stayed long enough
For the child
in me to grow
Fragments of your words do come
Floating by
at will
Long ago encounters stay
Fixed within
me still
Do you hear me oh my father
Do I give you
any joy
Am I with you in the heavens
As your
wisdom I employ
Do you know how much I love you?
Though I said
it not enough
Can I find a way to tell you
You’re gifts
were of the stuff
That gave me a direction from
Which I never
varied
Pierced the darkness with your light
In my heart
which I have carried
I have striven to be equal
To the man I
knew in you
To love the world as you did
Give myself
to all I knew
If you were here today I would
Hug you to my
chest
And tell you all the things
I
know you did invest
In my mind and in my heart
That I carry with
me now
Makes me a better person
With your
love I am endowed