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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...........
                           
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