Rendezvous with my daughter after many years


Shani


She regales my ears with childish words of make believe and silly things
She sooths my eyes her face a haunting beauty to behold
She breaks my heart with smile so real as to my hand she clings
She knows her daddy loves her without being told

A cottage quaint aside the road it's shingles loose and worn
The garden overgrown with grass and weeds
The flowers in abundance that once winding path adorned
No longer fulfil my aromatic needs

The tree that once swayed proud and graceful stood upon the hill
With etchings of much love carved on it's bole
It's foliage gone it's branches now forlorn as it stood still
Like me it too bereft eternal soul

I gather up my thoughts 'neath sombre sky's above
And wend my way back to my desolate road
Now in the distance I espy the child that I once loved
A lady arms outstretched to me enfold.
Brendan.





Poetry by Brendan Finbarr Tully
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Written on 2005-10-26 at 13:13

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