My Sons Keeper

My son how I love him.

Little Tate and I

 

 

I am my life's sole keeper

in the garden of my dreams

Within it dwell the great hopes

along with all my schemes

 

Why for me only the hard way

has taught my mind since youth

Does it seem could be no other

than a fact and cold hard truth

 

I chose the road that I tread

from my bold disdaining action

I would never listen to another

except to my own satisfaction

 

Lucky that he knows me not

for my sadness hides regret

As they who think to know me

know less the nearer they get

 

My son how I do love him

touching most his dreams within

But all I want for his heart

is to not go where I've been

 

Tate

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Reviews

[The Old Ashes]

O.K.
so I try not to completely shower the writer with praise
when I write a review
but oh my god..
I'm such a crybaby lol I'm welling up.
That picture for starters
just looking at it
while reading this
but the way you ended it..
oh my goodness.
I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff. My favorite song is With Arms Wide Open by Creed...
the power of a parents love for a child.
Wowzers.
in short
I loved it
:) You're an amazing writer
They say that in order to write well,
you must write about what you know.
What you're familiar with.
This is a spectacular piece coming from an emotion you know well.
Pity this thing won't let me rate over 100.
You'd have a 110/100

[Perception Shapes Poetr..]

i see your inner child in your son
a very healing type of love..it seems

[River Wilson]

Now thats real fatherly love, to wish so deeply that your son does not got through the pain you have experienced amazing. Its a pain i cant understand yet, and you describe it with such intensity.
Thanks Tate, this is such an insight.

[The Old Ashes]

I'm dropping in for the.. fourth time? to say..
I love this poem.

[Sonashree Basu]

Parents do wish the better for their children and hope they don't have to face the hardships that they did. Very Emotional and touching piece.

[Bear]

and one day, your son may realize that for you, he did not have to go where you had been. You might be the key that'll keep his path more golden than your early path and hopefully he'll take you along his golden road; sharing his experiences with you.

[Phibby Venable]

beautiful and strong

[Fallacy Pharmacy]

What a beautiful, heart warming poem. I love this! Very well done indeed :)

[Rick Puetter]

Dear Tate,

How many of us have regrets? Guess we're not perfect, huh! And how we
hope our offspring will avoid our mistakes. But aren't these the same wishes
of our parents? Of course they are. So what do we conclude? It's that life's
lessons are hard learned. When we're young we usually can't be told what the
world is like. We have to find this out ourselves. So provide what guidance
you can, but be prepared for a rocky road.

Beautiful sentiments, as always.

Best regards,

Rick

[The Analog Kid]

We love our children and want better for them, right? Nice expression of those sentiments.

[DBURKE]

This is a great poem. I really love the last stanza as a parents dreams for their children are always for them not to make the same mistakes or to turn out better than we were. I really enjoyed this poem!