Father

love:

not above

the scatological,

the probable

jokes,

evokes

rolls of eyes

and sighs-

no other

replies,

yet

tends

to 

repeat

each

generation.

And still

your

skill

at dadding,

adding

to what you

knew,

grew.

Fathering

adults

results

in being

jazzed

by what

has

and hasn’t

changed

in your

grown

children’s

own

lives

you recognize

as their’s

now.

A brief

visit

will elicit

an easy

joy.

They 

are now

the providers:

earning

trust,

discerning,

yearning

to build

what must

seem 

like 

a dream

they know

as home

because

of you,

their Dad.