Dads Garden

I see you kneeling as if in prayer

The sun is shining on your silver hair

working the soil with a packet of seeds

and watching each sprout for special needs



I think of another garden that you have grown.

The seeds of love that you have sown.

It was not always an easy task

Making a garden built to last.



You tended it with gentle kindness

sometimes with a single mindedness

always with a loving loving hand

your attentions always in demand.



You Never wavered in your care,

and as each one of us grew you were there.

To brace us up in blowing winds

To help us as our lives began.



We were planted on good ground

and we came from sturdy stock

It shows today in our lives

in the way we walk and talk.



We have now grown to full bloom

Each of us with gardens of our own.

The seedlings of your love are still

bursting from your home.



You've shown us how to raise these children at your feet

You feed them laughter water with tears

your care for them always

hiding your fears.



You sow them in a garden of love

and as God smiles from above

A flowering abundance of life they will reach

and the secret of your garden to their own they will teach



And as as they plant gardens of their own

They will never forget grandpa

Or the love
That you have sown.