When told my father died, I did not cry.
Repose swept in as if a cleansing breeze.
He struggled to stand straight, no longer spry.
My heart leapt that he passed, not on his knees.
My heart fell, as I brood upon my son;
His poppa passing on, he lost true north.
Of the young, my boy is the elder one;
Manifest, my young man will carry forth.
I cannot help my son to mourn and grieve,
Death strikes us all, each one, in its own way.
Yet stand with one accord; we lean, we cleave,
Together, find the strength for the new day.
A father tends to boy when boy is young.
To find his strength rests now within his son.
David L. Stanley, Feb. 2019
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