Original Poetry - Family Series: Dad
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Original Poetry from Adan Lerma
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Artist's Comment: this was written well before my dad had passed away oct last year ('06); and was when he first retired but was still going out finding repair work to do (he'd been in construction most his life, i guess all of mine to then), and i wanted to describe both how i remembered him when i was young, and how i hoped he'd be at the then present time, enjoying his years
related poem: "ok, dad"
adan - december 9, 2007 - to "dad"
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"the act of giving your thoughts to one you love can be as important as
the thought itself" - adan
Dad
I remember you so tall
you might’ve been a tree
so wide, arms so thick
I knew you might be
a wrestler too.
Only I didn’t know then
what you’d wrestled with
day in day out, working
standing up to the world,
bosses, short pay, standing
up like a tree to feed us, shade us.
I remember now the later years,
me in a hurry for that date
or movie, only momentarily seeing
the tiredness in your shoulders,
the light a little less bright
in your eyes. You were still
standing up to a world I’ve
only just begun to wrestle with.
It’s your turn to rest and
take in a movie. It’s your
turn to play. Please do. Please
know I know you worked
so hard for me to learn to live.
© 1994-2008 adam light creations/adan lerma
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Posted by Adan Lerma on 12/9/2007 7:40:03 PM |
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