The Difference

A Poem by Lydia Shutter

Happy Father's Day to those who are Dads......you are important...never doubt it.

Scanning the evening horizon
certain there is something out there

yet not being able to bring it into focus

Walking through

a totally open-ended landscape of thought
never reaching a conclusion

and not really needing to

So it is with the memory of you
like a newspaper clipping folded up in my wallet
ever-ready to stretch open into velvet nostalgia
when the time is right
(or not right as the case may be)

Indeed

you are here with me
and somehow
that makes all the difference

© 2014 Lydia Shutter

Author's Note

After 20 years, I still see my father's twinkling blue eyes and hear him whistling....not just on Father's Day, but every day.

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Beccy

Lydia, this is just so lovely. My father is getting close to seventy now. Just over two years ago he was diagnosed with Leukemia, (CML,) but we are so fortunate that there have been some amazing advances in treatment and so far, it is being contained. It's my mum and my sister and I who worry the most as dad tends to treat it as though it were an ingrowing toenail. I love him dearly and know, just like you, that twenty years on is simply an irrelevant blink in time.

God bless. Beccy.

Posted 11 Years Ago

1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

11 Years Ago

Beccy, I sincerely hope you have your Dad with you for many more years. He has a good attitude...an.. read more

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Linda alexander

A wonderful poem and a beautiful metaphor newspaper clipping in a wallet, loved it

Posted 11 Years Ago

1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

11 Years Ago

Thank you, Linda. Lydi**

11 Years Ago

You welcome my friend, take care

Sami Khalil

Wow. This was wonderful and endearing. A great tribute to your dad and all fathers. Although mine has passed on(if you believe in that) but I still feel his presence...Excellent as usual...:)..........