memory of an absent man

[Delta40]

do you remember me
bouncing on your knee
golden hair whipping my face

a rough horsey ride
but I held on with pride
as I rode along with the pace

then you pushed me down
and my heart did frown
when I saw you were going to leave

I grappled for your hand
to stay in your magic land
but I only tore your sleeve

so you walked away
and to this very day
I wonder what I must've said

Because nothing is the same
since you stopped our little game
but then, perhaps its because you're dead

[dafydd manton]

Damn! As an estranged father, much against my will, that has such resonance and power. I can feel the emotion from here. Thanks Delta.

[Jerrybaldy]

Bitter end to your Dad's tribute. But indisputable. ah memories. so beautiful and yet so lost. Beautiful all the same Delta. And powerful.
Jerry

[Delta40]

well if my poem resonates with just one person too Dafydd it was worth it also.

xo

[dafydd manton]

Damn! Tears again! Stop it.

[Delta40]

its your fault and Dafydd's. all this memory lane stuff. i have to go to work and listen to the strategic managment plan for tax in 2011!

[Jerrybaldy]

I would go and listen in body only :)

[dafydd manton]

I'm not sure I was joking, mate. It was one very moving piece of work. Normal service will be resumed...........

[Delta40]

no. it is serious but the beauty of getting older is that we have two sets of eyes with which to view the world and our history - a childs and an adults. fortunately, I can turn each on when appropriate.

[Delta40]

I would go and listen in body only :)

gee i don't know Jerry, tax is a pretty interesting topic!

[dafydd manton]

That is a neat observation! Perhaps my childlike eyes still work too well.

[Delta40]

apparently as you age child eye vision is 20/20!

[Jerrybaldy]

I bet it lights your soul ablaze Delta. I start training for a personal taxation exam next wednesday, we will have to swap notes, the long dark evenings will just fly past.

[Delta40]

like a plane carrying excess baggage....

[PrinceMyshkin]

It's such a fine poem, so true to the voice of the child you were, but...

I wish there were some way to convey that he's dead without actually coming out and saying it. There's something farcical about announcing it with a rhyme.

[Delta40]

You're right Prince. Guess my child eye glasses slipped of my nose by the end

so you walked away
and to this very day
I wonder what I had done

Because nothing is the same
since you stopped our little game
in my life, you were so much fun

[dafydd manton]

I'm lost!

[angliholic]

Thanks, Delta, for sharing this sweet and sorrowful memory!
While reading it, I kept seeing the past images of my loving old man!
It seems only yesterday!
Oh! Father! Father!
Without you, the world would have been much different to me!

[Delta40]

yes, the world is different. mercifully, we will never know what that difference is