Wednesday, March 12, 2008

AS THOUGH


Four years ago you left

As though you never cared

As though you never loved

As though it weren’t you


It must have been mighty

That tore your caring arm

And curbed your will to be

To see your Great-Grands


Supposing such weren’t true

That sent you visiting offspring

In all the crannies of the world

And sent your manly eyes a –tearful

On the endless expectation of one

Your departure wouldn’t have mattered


What be thy disposition thence

Since journeys you can not make

And hosting you dare not do

The next three score years

It must have been lonely


Oh! Daddy I wish I knew

What has since become

Of your mirthful self

The one I used to love


Probably gone in loneliness

Or so ever broadened

By the heavenly host

Or even renewed

In the new seeds that grow

In the fresh dreams we share

Our dreams!


Four years ago!

As though it were yesterday

As though it were a dream

As though you were a journeying


Sleep on Daddy

Till all are brought together

At the white throne

Of the all mighty Mighty

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