Fathers Day Poem

On this father’s day I feel fortunate to know what a true father looks like

On this father’s day I am lucky to have sensed the touch of a kind heart

Who was with me at birth and with whom I was at death

My father helped me believe who I was

And that was to believe in me

On this father’s day, I remember all the children who have lost their father to war or peace

On this day, I remember all the fathers who lost their children at birth or to suicide

On this day, I remember the old man down the lane
who had no kids but adopted a dozen in far away lands

On this day, I thank my father for showing me the importance of dignity
even after the revolution took his

From a Father to a Child

You came to my life and I then knew what the sun feels like

You came into the world
and then I knew the colors of the rainbow existed in the white of your eyes

You make the world turn around
and although I ask you to study to be a lawyer a doctor or an astronaut

I love you for your heart of gold and the charm you have been for me since birth

From Child to Father

I am thankful for your thoughts

I am thankful for your lessons

Each lesson full of thoughts

Each thought full of lessons

I will carry with me the prayers and the hard love

The hard love made me learn and the prayers helped me see

Thank you Father