Hope Turns Slowly into Realization

June 12, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which is celebrated on June 17^th.

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A Father’s Day poem about how to handle parental expectations:

Hope turns slowly into realization

As children slowly grow into themselves.

Perhaps some remnant fantasy rebels.

Perhaps one should revise one’s expectation.

Yet children owe one’s dreams no explanation,

For one must heed the tale that fortune tells

And greet the prodigal with joyful bells

That render the sweet song of the relation.

Have no illusion: Love is like a tide

Ebbing and flowing through the channeled heart,

Returning, turning as some smiling moon

‘Mid bits of shattered glory makes its way.

So must one with unremitting pride,

Destined for a quintessential part,

Attempt to harmonize that complex tune,

Yielding, shaping, listening to it play.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day

6/11: Fear Not, for Love Is All Around You

6/12: Hope Turns Slowly into Realization