For My Father

I flew today with my father long gone Yet... We flew It was his birthday The sixteenth, it is only another day He taught me so much, in little ways as such A fathers' way DC-8s never die they always fly here, there, in blue sky The small ways, are what I am today Such gentleness I owe to my mother My endurance To my father.. For, I am A mixture of my parents way The love of wings, an inherited thing Eleven years ago, another time Long ago Such things, I have come to know