
To my son Donald Benjamin!
What a great friend you’ve been!
Since I held you when you were just a wee tot of your Mother born
Looking into your dark brown beady eyes
After your triumphant delivery I sworn
To love and cherish you each morn!
Until the dawn of time
You bring strength and joy to all of my rhymes
You are intelligent, patient, and kind
The measured pleasant steady student to my unvarnished salty workingman’s brine
You have been a fine young man!
A chip off the old block with a steadier hand
On this All Saint’s Day
You would be my first pick on my baseball team’s starting nine
Now it is time
I most cheerily say to you my lad!
Happy 15th Birthday!
Enjoy all the merriment from a proud toiling father that can be had
Love Always
Dad