<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359333" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Father's Tears (Free Verse)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Consummate pain<br>Like a cruel wrench<br>Gripped his heart<br>And crushed, it bled<br>A father's tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No words define<br>His anguished grief<br>A wretched loss<br>His own son...<br>His seed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The baby he carried <br>In his arms<br>And nurtured<br>In paternal love<br>Now broken, scarred<br>A shriveled man<br>His father's eyes <br>Now bleed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He would take him back<br>To be his child<br>Return him safely<br>To his past<br>No war could touch him <br>Hidden there<br>His eyes see through <br>An hourglass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My boy, my son! <br>What have they done? <br>Your life a mangled mess<br>What's left to do? <br>These father's tears<br>Will not replace<br>The boy, the man<br>That I once knew! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">-<br>May 12,2009 Tarlac City Philippines</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Cynthia+Buhain-Baello">Cynthia Buhain-Baello</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359333" data-title="A Father's Tears (Free Verse) de Cynthia Buhain-Baello" data-description="Consummate pain Like a cruel wrench Gripped his heart And crushed, it bled A father's tears. No words define His anguished grief A wretched loss His own son... His seed. The baby he carried In his arms And nurtured In paternal love Now broken, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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