To Fathers, Just Because
To Fathers, Just Because©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
June 19, 2021
To all the fathers who did their best
To do it right, to rise to the test
To all the dads be they one or two
Straight, Trans or Gay,
in the red, white and blue
To all the father figures
All permutations galore
Mentor, role model, teacher
One thing I know for sure
It you reached down deep
Into that scary place
Threw expectations out the window
Allowed your heart to race
While you loved your child
Unconditionally
Whatever he, she, them
Turned out to be
Then bravo to you
For you did it right
You did it pure
You fought the good fight
You saved your child from a terrible fate
For you chose to love
and not berate
You loved your child
just because
That is enough
APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE!
About this poem
A celebration to fathers, in all their permutations, who support their children just for who they were born to be.
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Submitted by shulman.gary on June 19, 2021
Modified on April 29, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXX BBCXCXXXDXEXEFGXGCHDHIXIFAXA |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 720 |
Words | 143 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 28 |
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