Thursday, August 20, 2009

A poem about my father...composed the day he died in 1955

I would reall like to get to know you better today
But I am so very busy and don’t have time to stay
I would really like to get to know you better today
But your home is so very very many blocks away
I would really like to get to know you better today
I would really like to get to know you better today
But I have to drive to the metro to see a neat play
I would really like to get to know you better today
But you died in your sleep before the break of day.
jdm01/01/04
I was 18, a senior in HS at Bromide, Oklahoma and his death devestated me. This poem comes from thoughts and verse that day composed over the fifty years since and finally written down in 2004. I loved and admired my father who was a champion competitive runner and cowboy. I updated the poem for modern consumption. He has about a hundred offspring in Oklahoma counting in laws and woods colts.