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No matter the tune
I want to dance with you.
Cause I’ve grooved alone,
and I just wind up at home.
So, take the lead,
no matter the flips or the tricks
I know I’m safe in your flow.
Because when our hearts beat as one,
I know I am alive and a son.
When The Father asks you to dance
Manx Jan 2021
my son turned to me today
"do you hate anyone?"
sure, i told him no, as a father, but it wasn't true
my daughter turned today and asked
"what am i?"
and, as a mother, i replied she was my daughter

i tell them santa's real
i tell them the easter's bunny is
and the tooth fairy too
i tell them white lies
till their insides turn black
till no longer
do they
turn back
i tell them lies
so they won't ask
it hurts to lie to them
more so though
to take the axe
to innocence
still so young
Sarah Flynn Dec 2020
he has his father's eyes.

that's the first thing
that I notice when
I hold my son
for the first time.

those huge, hazel eyes
are staring back at me
from his perfect face.

he is so small
and so young
and so innocent

but already,
he reminds me
of his father.

already, I am scared
that my son will
grow up to be
just like his father,

or maybe even worse.
maybe my son will
grow up to be
just like me.
For God So Loved the World
that He gave his one and only begotten son
For God so loved the World
that He saw our sins and didn’t call it “done”
For God so loved the world
that He sent a lamb to be grown for slaughter
For God so loved the world
and we chose to hate us… harder and harder

The Heaven rejoices, the night’s stars delight
The night runs gleefully in a bright satin light
The people around me, scurry with the customs.
The people around me, quaff honey and merry
The people around me, buried in delicatessens
The world reminiscing in carols with cake ‘n wine
But remember Christmas, not for its colour and pop
‘Tis the dawn of our deliverance by Love from atop

For God So Loved the World
that He gave his one and only begotten son
For God so loved the World,
that He paid a price in blood for us, bloodhounds
For God so loved the World,
and we chose to gracelessly trample our brothers
For God so loved the World.
and we chose to hate our kin, harder and harder.
Harder and harder.
Just a Christmas Rag but it speaks the truth. Christmas is Love. I hope you enjoy it.
Max Neumann Dec 2020
today, sir, is the day to say thank you
and my way to do so, ermh --
is to write you a poem
i don't know about your past but your

knowledge of mine is vast
you knew me better than my parents
and you spotted the real me during our therapy never said my "father" that he

was proud of me -- but you did, you revealed in me the true kid because you have the gift to lead people to the place where their truth is; most people join the rat race, but you always kept the same pace and you

made it to erase my shame, healing people is what you're here for, reliable and faithful, and regardless of any writer's fame: YOU HAVE A NAME... an inner flame of kindness glows in your soul, you released me from my

blindness, and you helped me dealing with my tormenter: cole, i never felt that you played a role, i sensed you are whole, may god bless your four daughters, and i wished YOU had been my father, but thats fine: cause you

became a father figure, and soon i figured that your goodness makes you richer than a person owning millions, i do thank you a billion times for being
a mirror who is speaking, at our first session i

shivered, but hid it, you opened me, and noted nothing down, you just listened and saved me from drowning
each letter is for you, each word proves my gratitude how can you have this attitude? how do you do this?

im not idealizing, yet, you're my idol, cause you taught me bout my anger, that as a child, i never had a man as a rival, i had lost my destination and you were my arrival

Fakhri Khalik, you were my arrival.
You stopped my denial.
You are a huge part of my survival.

You are my arrival, I am your disciple.

Forever Yours.

Max
Ken Pepiton Dec 2020
Well, if my attention is all I own, and may
self generate, in return for
earning,
learning or reacting to mazing devices for
finding why I choose

if my will is surrendered to chemistry,
where is the code
hat keeps time
n chnce missing random keys in random lines?

WHY must I never forget how to ride a bike?
How can I ever forget U, U'

facing front from the first learned cross,
any color works, Mondriaan sub-'tility
be not decieved of the
more than 43 quintillion ways to scramble a Rubik's cube,
of all those,
there is only your definition for the right state to prove, if you wish
there is a perfect mix,
equally tricky,

beguiling, in fact, to watch a seven-year old on Adderall do this.
Glorying in seeing my grandson solve a three by three puzzle as his Daddy
silently -nearly, watches saying see, see, saying over and over see, ah shhh, seee -- neither are on Adderall... poetic licensee not biografee.
five minutes, by the cloud's clock.
He left her a small note
On the table next to the vase
Look after our son, he wrote
And he left with no trace
He couldn't care for both
The pleasures of life he wanted to chase
He couldn't stand the rote
Of daily life, and the tears run down her face
She thought it was her fault
But that was not the case
The deep love has began to float
So she left with her son to another place
Running from the memories he has brought
To a new life she's going to embrace
Omar Kurdi Dec 2020
I’ve chosen a new home for me
Somewhere in a wild wild place
You know, I’ve always imagined my home to be white
But with so many colors inside
And a stairwell to a heavenly upstairs
There, you’ll find the California
And you’ll find me in an imagined placenta
Wondering if it’s time to be reborn
Or time to die inside
This home I’ve chosen
Has so many cells, with so many broken walls
And it has a grand ballroom for my memories to waltz
And dance away the events of that unspoken of day
The day the sun rose with one ray less
The day the clouds watched over me as I cried
As I mourned, and wished that my tears were just washing off my sins
And not bidding farewell to a man with none
See, I’ve chosen a new home, dad..
A home where your picture continues to inspire
A home where your voice can still be heard
A home where you are still there
And I am there too waiting for a scolding
I’ve a chosen a haven away from a reality nightmare
A treehouse with a one way ladder
And a memory box that I will never leave locked
I’ve a chosen a home far from my quiet room
Far from this cold hallway waiting for the ringing of your oxygen machine
Distant from the memory of you grasping a breath to live
I’ve chosen a home where I can miss you without missing you
Where I am not a jailed grieving man
Where I am with you all the time
Written to commemorate my father’s one year anniversary of his passing.
hannah kay Nov 2020
i hope you will write to me
   years from now
when you have grown
when i am old
    when you are on your own

i hope you will write to me
     and remember my love
a heart-changing
lifetime lasting
    blessing from above

i hope you will write to me
    and realize just how proud
i am to be your mother
just me and you
    surviving all the doubt


i know you will always write to me
   because your heart is kind
you loved me well
more than i deserved
    forever intertwined
for my son.
Jack R Fehlmann Nov 2020
Every way, each day
I am present to see it.
His miracle of being
I the recipient his gift
Awestruck, humbled, blessed
This I understand completely
Though I know not how, or why
I.  This man I still learn to know
As myself, of my self,
Admit having witness his growing
In great measure do I envy him
See his approach at living, being
embodying the kindest soul,
Naturally thoughtful and caring
How he is, has become
A lesson that I do learn from
My little legacy, so far beyond
better than from which he comes
I worry for him as fathers must
But not of him, of life's unexpected
always haunting every person
just out of foretelling, behind any horizon
For this treasure of my life I know
No doubt, to be a person of light
Wits, genuine smiles, listening and learning
His my Son, He is my Hero
I am out done, and yet,
ever the more thankful.
Blessed by You Zieven Lee.
Thank You.  More than you'll ever know.
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