A poem about a father and son |
THE PRODIGAL FATHER I must see my son today He's growing like the grass. He's green for now, but not for long, seasons change, green grass dies, lost in the fields of rough brown men. How his blue eyes sparkle when I walk in. But time like baby teeth is lost in the gaps in his boyhood grin. I suppose I can console myself, in the fact that I let myself down as much as I did him. I do my best to compress five days and squeeze them into two. But the weeks blend together, chasing months that trip on the heels of the running years, and me running fast, five days a week, so I may catch him two. How hard I've worked to give him things I claimed I never had. His toys lay strewn across the yard, lost reminders from a missing dad. Now I sit and ponder. And wonder what I've done. For one year when the seasons change, I'll have a part time son. Then how my gray eyes will sparkle when he walks in. Him running fast, for twenty-nine days, so he may catch me one. How I will think of him often. How I'll remember then. When I'm standing there searching for him, in a field of rough brown men........... |