a poem from a father to his son

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st theresa
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a poem from a father to his son

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The Book of Longing

This morning I put your book on the table,
the one you gave to me for Christmas
just before you told me you were going away
and might never come back.

I have read this book from cover to cover
but its message is deeper than words.
Now whenever I look at it,
I am reminded of you.
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The author's name is Baba Farid. This is his website.

http://www.eagalicmusic.com/
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Something in this reminds me of Patrick Kavanagh's poem:


Memory of my Father


Every old man I see
Reminds me of my father
When he had fallen in love with death
One time when sheaves were gathered.

That man I saw in Gardner Street
Stumbled on the kerb was one,
He stared at me half-eyed,
I might have been his son.

And I remember the musician
Faltering over his fiddle
In Bayswater, London,
He too set me the riddle.

Every old man I see
In October-coloured weather
Seems to say to me:
"I was once your father."
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