Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Unfinished

I am the father of these poems,
They are of me as I was then;
All stand as if unfinished homes,
All are prayers that wait amen.

When I am gone they shall still live,
In lands and times I’ve never known;
And my name a glance you may give,
And know I sang as one of your own.

And if my theme touched your heart,
I shall have done all that I sought;
I shall not from the world depart,
When you hold dear the verse I wrought. 



 Declan O'Reilly

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