Sunday, 5 March 2017


Our Father’s Love
Some humans yell from rooftops on high
Of the great love they feel for a precious new child.
Any why not?
Let them declare it, if the feelings be so.
Shout it out loud and let the universe know.
Some take pen and paper to hand
To write of deep fondness- the type speech can’t command.
Others find it too hard to say
Those three words I love you- it is just not their  way.
Your love for your children was shy but true
And this is what we’ll remember of you.
You’ve soared away now
To that “haven of rest”
Over Cork’s charming hills
In “the land of the west.”
But before you departed
As I kissed your pale brow
A realisation emerged
That still stays with me now:
Each father’s love uses a different  colour,
And no one canvas dyes better than the other.


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