Happy Father's Day to a Dear Uncle
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Happy Father's Day to a dear uncle! A pillar of my life and of my joy; Patient, though I may your cover rumple; Pleased to be both playmate and large toy. Yours is the quiet sanity I count on, Familiar in the space around your voice, A gentle, well-trained wisdom I can mount on To ride to the persuasion of my choice. Here I am, then, at your doorstep waiting, Eager to be held by you and play, Ravenous with hunger there's no sating, 'Mid your life a willful piece of clay. So will we join our destinies in this Dependency, which someday I will miss, A long, consuming moment which, when done, Yet will shape the journeys still to run. Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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