The Old Man
The old man sat there waiting watching listening to hear
If someone would be visiting as Father's Day drew near
But none would come to see him none would give him time of day
This man who once had worked so hard with little time to play
For his had been the honor of a life of plentitude
A life once filled with blessing not with gain but attitude
Of being ever thankful for his children and his wife
And health and strength to give them what they needed in this life
But as is prone to happen with the passing of the years
His precious wife had left him after many painful tears
Were shed with her departure from this life into the grave
This woman whom he cherished whom he wanted so to save
And then as time kept passing with the movement of the hands
Upon his father's time piece that cared not about his plans
He watched his children slipping into patterns of their own
That left him more without them as he sat there all alone
With just his cherished memories of happy days gone bye
Still wanting to embrace them as a tear would fill his eye
To hold them for that moment that would never let them go
Just praying for some vestige of their love that he might know
But none came out to see him none would take the time to call
None felt the need or wondered if he thought of them at all
For life was too consuming with its pleasures wants and needs
To waste their precious moments with the one whose heart still pleads
For someone to remind him of the past that he forgot
The past that once held promise when she loved me loved me not
When youth seemed never fleeting only filled with things to do
And brought with it adventure filled with wonders bright and new
That brought a zest for living serving others as he grew
Rewarded by the feeling of the good that he could do
To help another person through their struggles find a way
To look beyond the present to another coming day
That day that he now looks for when no one will ever die
When age will never matter and no tears will fill their eyes
And loved ones reunited will be parted never more
As all who lived in Jesus will find what they waited for
2 Corinthians 4:14-18; Revelation 21:1-5
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