By Zero #1
Date: 2001 Jul 16
Comment on this Work
[[2001.07.16.02.03.31627]]

The Meeting

I look forward to meeting you,
15 years down the road,
When I am no longer the boy you knew,
but a man now, wiser and old,
  You'll be able to see the silver in my hair,
and the aged lines on my face,
and we'll laugh together and cry together,
while running the very same race,
  I look forward to meeting you,
with open arms that hug everytime,
and the day my children hold your fingers,
and mumble sweet words in rhyme,
  I look forward to meeting you,
as a man in front of his father,
for there is none in the entire world
that could ever make me want another,
  You'll see all the choices I've made,
and you'll see all those scars on my back,
and as we hug for the first time 15 years later,
I still think we'll be able to hold it back,
  Because I look forward to seeing you,
15 years down the road,
When I am still your son, and you my father,
as we smile together, growing old.