Fathers Need Not Fathers Be

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Nicholas Gordon

Fathers need not fathers be.
All one needs to do is choose
To love for life, and that embrace,
Held long and hard, bestows the grace
Each child craves, and then must lose,
Restored alone by memory.
So now it is with you and me.

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