Happy Father's Day to One Whose Love

June 18, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day.

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A Father’s Day poem to a father who is reluctant to be celebrated:

Happy Father's Day to one whose love

Asks nothing more than that it more might give!

Praised be those whose self-love selfless proves;

Praised be those who by such pleasure live.

Years of longing find no better plight,

For everything that is, is ever here.

A love that gives, gives unalloyed delight,

Taking in more breath than it can bear.

How lovely, then, to give this day to you,

Embracing who would rather us embrace,

Rejoicing in the ballet old anew,

'Twixt give and give a shy and awkward grace!

So may you ever be on Father's Day,

Despite yourself, the hero of the play,

Accepting from your loved ones what you would

Yet give yourself to them, if you but could.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 15: Freedom Is a Casualty of Loving

June 16: Happiness Is Served by Celebration

June 17: Happy Father’s Day to a Father-to-Be

June 18: Happy Father’s Day to One Whose Love