Keith D Trestrail Poet Sonnet

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For Oscar On His 6th Birthday

Truly it is no small mercy but some
  more noble importance favoured on me,
you are a child in time whose time has come
  and I love you, Little Man, desperately!
For I am cheerful in hope and all things
  that the bright stars are yours to upward aim,
and guide you to the Valley of the Kings
  or ghost ship treasure on the Spanish Main.
Let adventure and crossing fill your days -
  may God’s keep watch over you to your grave,
thus learn well beginning so young always
  that time is your master and not your slave.
You are to me by a nature so great
living proof good things come to those who wait.


              Written: March 2006

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Deb M July 10, 2022 at 7:32 AM Hey Skeet…..lovely poem for your son….you can feel the love! Enjoyed….Debx

Jeff Kyser July 10, 2022 at 4:37 AM very lovely, as a young adult, I hope he enjoys this even more than when it was written!