I just wanted to tell you, thank you for being my father.
I am truly my fathers son, as daily:
I hear YOU in my voice, my jokes, my humor and my laughter. the wisdom of your life is instilled within my heart, I feel it running through me as I have become a brother, father, mentor, and respected elder to those in my own social circles.
EVERY DAY I see YOU in my mirror, looking deeply into my face, at my brow and into my eyes, I see the pieces of YOU that make up many of the pieces of me.
I gaze upon my hands, filled with pain and enlarged from strenuous abuse, scared, burned and broken from years of hard work. although much younger my hands also show the same unmistakable marks of time as the hands that picked me up when I was a small child,
I am truly my fathers son, as daily:
I hear YOU in my voice, my jokes, my humor and my laughter. the wisdom of your life is instilled within my heart, I feel it running through me as I have become a brother, father, mentor, and respected elder to those in my own social circles.
EVERY DAY I see YOU in my mirror, looking deeply into my face, at my brow and into my eyes, I see the pieces of YOU that make up many of the pieces of me.
I gaze upon my hands, filled with pain and enlarged from strenuous abuse, scared, burned and broken from years of hard work. although much younger my hands also show the same unmistakable marks of time as the hands that picked me up when I was a small child,