Happy Fathers Day to all Fathers of Soldiers and our soldiers who left their young ones at home while serving overseas. We're thinking of you.. and our hearts and love go out to you today.
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Showing posts with label Father's Day. Show all posts
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Sunday, June 17, 2007
A wish for Fathers Here and Overseas
I would like to wish all the fathers - serving in Afghanistan and those waiting back home while their sons are serving overseas and in Canada a Happy Father's Day.
Thinking of you, Military Mom.
Photo by: Master Cpl Darrell Priede
How Can I Touch You When You're Far Away?
How can I touch you when you're far away?
A poem is not as salient as a kiss.
Poems but poorly presences convey,
Perhaps because of all that words must miss.
Yet write I must because you are not here,
Father farther from my eyes than heart,
A face more frequent than it might appear,
Tempered by the tyrannies of art.
How might I be with you in ways that are
Equal to the passion of my yearning,
Reaching for a grace beyond the bar
'Ere there's any word of your returning.
So may the time between us quickly pass,
Days of longing that long cannot last,
A time when but through words we may embrace,
Yet know that soon we will be face to face.
By Dimitri Shostakovich
Thinking of you, Military Mom.
How can I touch you when you're far away?
A poem is not as salient as a kiss.
Poems but poorly presences convey,
Perhaps because of all that words must miss.
Yet write I must because you are not here,
Father farther from my eyes than heart,
A face more frequent than it might appear,
Tempered by the tyrannies of art.
How might I be with you in ways that are
Equal to the passion of my yearning,
Reaching for a grace beyond the bar
'Ere there's any word of your returning.
So may the time between us quickly pass,
Days of longing that long cannot last,
A time when but through words we may embrace,
Yet know that soon we will be face to face.
By Dimitri Shostakovich
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