Re: My Dad

Posted by Frank on September 14, 2003 at 03:51:12 from (205.188.209.105):

In Reply to: My Dad posted by gatractorman on September 13, 2003 at 04:14:00:

IN MEMORY OF JEROME YOUNG
1900-1991
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He was born at the turn
of century twenty,
when life was more simple
but labor was plenty

It seemed he was meant
to toil by the hour,
not with machines
but horses for power

From here looking back
it sounds like slave labor,
but when his work was done
He'd go help the neighbor

How could he do it
day after day,
For so many years
With so little pay

He looked at his life
by this simple measure,
a moment of fun
Made the day's work a treasure

He took his life's calling
as a gift from above,
for farming to him
was a labor of love

He knew of the secret
that outweighed the strife,
he learned how to savor
The small joys of life

A nap in the grass
after lunch in the sun,
a fondness it turns out
passed on to his son

A nap in the grass
the dog at his side,
enjoying the peace
simple things can provide

At the end of the day
when light would subside,
"Get the cows", he would growl,
the dog always complied

On eighty clay acres
that his father owned too
it was easy to think
that was all that he knew

It was easy to think
at least until we grew older,
That all that he had
was the brawn of his shoulders

But he gazed past the fencerows
Treetops and borders,
as the old team of horses
carried out his orders

He could see distant places
where strange flags are unfurled,
with his feet in a furrow
my Dad saw the world.

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