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Sunday, October 9, 2022

After Parenting

What pray tell should life become

With setting of child rearing’s sun

Shall life remain moored as in bearing years

Or cast adrift to seek new cheers


As father I wore a certain coat

As parent I captained a specific boat

That carried goods and goals and needs

Provided grain and eggs and feeds


Before that time though I did stand

On a different path across this land

My coat then made of leather tough

To protect me from adventures rough


Old siren calls of places, things

Remain in memory as clarion rings

Urging me to cut the chains that moor

Take aim for far gone distant shore


To seek new life in what’s left of my days 

Thus to impact in as many ways

The world around; to betterment make

And to repay the resources that I did take



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