The Ties That Bind
A Poem by Tate Morgan
My son thought it an adventure
learning how to build on real scale
Who could say they don't love the day
when their sons light shone in detail
My
son thought it an adventure
learning
how to build in full scale
Who
could say they don't love the day
when
their boy's light shone in detail
We
had worked into the evening
my
son and I together played
Sharing
the trials exchanging smiles
rebuilding
the home where we stayed
He felt this would be a great test knowing on him I would depend
I
think he knew as I did too
that
summer was about to end
I
drift back in dreams to the day
we both held to our love of clan
The autumn breeze played through the trees saying my boy was now a man
© 2017 Tate Morgan
Author's Note
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Our house had burned last summer. It was a telling time for sure. But through it all my son stood by me. He and he alone helped me rebuild what we had lost. I realized when he turned down going to the school to meet friends just to help me finish our new deck that he was a man. But as we passed smiles back and forth I also knew I was losing my little boy. It is a great feeling to know you have done well by your child. It is also so sad to realize that the day will soon come that I will have to let go. I can say when a man is a boy all the new days ahead are adventures. But to a father time seems to test your resilience. While everything is exciting to the young who find it new. Life makes us grow when older by learning to let go.
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Reviews
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This is easily one of your most simply appealing pieces, it is not overwritten or unnecessarily simplified - the paternal feelings and pride flow through the words and phrasing with such ease. While I do not consider it technically your best piece, I would say it is most certainly amongst your most heartfelt and sincere. It is a sublime piece upon fatherhood, a beautiful testament to the paternal, and a loving piece that shares with audience the swelling pride that must've been filling your breast at that moment.
Thank you ever so much for sharing this moment in your life, it is comforting that from the ashes of something as tragic as losing the family home can come something so resplendent as the blossoming of one's child into an admirable man.
Sincerely and in all earnestness,
A.E.
Posted 13 Years Ago
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Tate MorganMarion , OH
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