Keith D Trestrail Poet Sonnet

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For Oscar On His 5th Birthday

Yours is a healing and life-giving balm
  that behoves me my merry thanksgiving,
I am by my own twist of fate becalmed 
  and I am wiser to wonderful things.
Memento Mori and Carpe Diem -
  there is much to see and much to begin
so live well and long that in years to come
  you not look back and muse what might have been.
Now if from your helping cause I abstain
  or when in lonesome brooding I am sad
in futile excess, I’ll beg once again
  to hear you curing say “I love you dad!”.
O’ wife and child it’s you and only you
that makes me love and do the things I do.


              Written: March 2005

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