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Stone Age Fathers

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Recently :iconansdesign: and :icontrippy4u: shared some humour with me over the age of my (late) father and how it fitted with her amazing piece "I'm Victorian"..... Many of us are of an age where we have had fathers (or parents) who, by circumstances of their own birth or upbringing have been less than supportive in our early and even ongoing emotional development to the point of causing life long suffering in our personal as well as other relationships... The following is my attempt to "lay a ghost" in my own life - if it helps others to lay their own ghosts then I am at peace with this!!


As I looked down upon the face
Now at peace, in quiet repose
I feel a load lift from my heart
And a small tear run down my nose

A life was lived as he desired
He did his best, with what he knew
With strength of purpose to the fore
No prisoners taken, regrets were few

He leaves a legacy few would argue
Characters  moulded by his own hand
And now the time for those who mourn
To follow their hearts, and silently stand

For life is a gift to open hearts daily
The soul directs our paths and plans
To be assured of living now and fully
The days to come are within our hands
© 2017 - 2024 Arte-de-Junqueiro
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TeaPhotography's avatar
I know you wrote this a while ago, but I hope you don't mind the comment now... 

"He did his best with what he knew"... this is a very powerful line, for YOU, a line of *healing*... this is something I've come to, finally after all of these years, and I am so grateful, because not everyone can realize this, and even maybe for good reason, in their particular situation. I cannot judge them, the way they think and all that's happened on anyone else's journey. 

But for me this has been VERY powerful... I've become "softer" in my thoughts... even forgiving... and it's helped me more than anything.

"To be assured of living NOW and fully"... 

This is just important... because we can't FULLY live in the present, if we remain stuck in out sticky pasts... surely they have made us who we are surely, but we make up the rest.

My father is still living by the grace of the Universe, and I have had the gift with my father to actually improve our relationship in the last 2-3 years, of of several decades of "storms" (in order to quantify my childhood) and having nothing in common and inability to have acceptance.  2-3... it sounds very little, but it is a gift that some with the kind of relationship I've had, rarely would get. And it does take two.

I am thrilled that I have come across this. Thank you for your courage to share. :heart: