fledgist: Me in a yellow shirt. (Default)
today's my father's birthday another time to weep
remembering the years when i was child and youth
i think of him now in the eternal dreamless sleep

today's a day for memory the promises that i keep
and those i do and will not for the sake of truth
today's my father's birthday another time to weep

time with its usual craft has come to smile and creep
at all the memories what it leaves alas is ruth
i think of him now in the eternal dreamless sleep

but all i rue is the long unsaid silence's price is steep
now it will not be paid as to what was said forsooth
today's my father's birthday another time to weep

the passage of time creates an abyss that's truly deep
to find its bottom its true end would take a sleuth
i think of him now in the eternal dreamless sleep

my thought now is a great mansion into each room i peep
recalling scenes attending to a voice that was ever couth
today's my father's birthday another time to weep
i think of him now in the eternal dreamless sleep
fledgist: Me in a yellow shirt. (negative avatar)
the magic bird for my father is weeping
or else has joined him in that longest sleep
he sits there my memory in his keeping
but outside the night is becoming deep
dark and full of the sounds of pain
the saddest music with a cheery tone
the keys declaring that false is the strain
in the fresh dark we are all alone
i think about those folk in far-off places
who do their work for very little pay
i wonder what puts joy into their faces
or what they think of every vanished day
and wonder if i asked that they would see
myself in them as i see them in me

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