"My Greatest Adventure..."

 

“My Greatest Adventure…”

　

From the moment my eyes

Held upon your delicate face

I knew I’d love you more

Than life itself

 

Your heart completed my own

My blood flows through your veins

My son, my heart, my all

 

Still waters run deep

And the sacred bond of family

Can never be denied or dissolved

 

What fecund tears of happiness

Ran across my hapless face

 

The road to eternity seemed boundless

As I knew that you would echo my destiny

As father and son we played as children

Cementing the beautiful recourse of love

That naturally blossomed between our hearts

 

As time unfolded neatly upon itself

And as you grew into a self enabled man

My heart exploded as fireworks across the sky

With immeasurable pride and sheer happiness

 

As the sun echoes across the elegant decades

I find that my hairs have grown silently gray

While you have become a mirror reflection

Of the young man I saw in less repeated days

 

If I were to convey to you one piece

Of prerequisite wisdom or sage advice

Is to always cherish your wonders years

 

The profound beauty of today

Is that it can stretch beyond eternity

If you allow the love of your heart

To permeate each aspect of your reality

 

My loving son and strong young warrior

Take to task each lovely scent and syntax

 

Realize that the pontification of politics

Is only a desolate distraction

To our divine CREATOR’S manifest destiny

 

Only LOVE’S eloquent inebriation

Will allow the beauty of your life

To reach the appropriate apex

It is so beautifully predicted to become

 

Until the stars fall silently

Into the serene oceans

 

You will always be my son

My reason for rising each day

And simply my greatest adventure

　

Kenny L. Mitchell

October 3, 2009

Reviews

[cest la vie]

"You will always be my son
My reason for rising each day
And simply my greatest adventure"

Kenny,
knowing your history with him, I am totally speechless. Never have I read (ever) a finer, deeply loving tribute to a child.This boy/manchild is you and vice versa. The Creator will wind your roads together very soon, this I know. Excellent, excellent write.

Friends,
Lynne

[Jola]

beautiful poem ... full of love for his son .. beautifully written touched me greatly thanks.
Greetings Jola

[Ellen Hammond]

This is a deeply profound write of a loving father. Kenny, you have poured your heart out in this tribute. Someday your son will read it and love it no doubt.

[Mark]

It is a blessing I have never known, Kenny, this blessing of being a parent, so I cannot in truth begin to fathom what it truly means to see your Eternity, wrapped in a blanket and attached to his mother's breast. This poem, however, brings my heart nearer to the knowledge of that experience than anything ever has.If I may offer the minutest critique, though, I might suggest that in future works, you sought to avoid overrused or cliched phrases--the one that caught my eye first was "still waters run deep".But this is an insignificant blemish, on this most profound tribute of a man to his son. A tribute this son (myself) apparently never merited...