What do you think?
You hold my hand in yours,
You take me where you go.
You show me how you do things,
You teach me all I know.
You're always spending time with me,
And you talk to me too.
Just keep being you Daddy,
And doing what you do.
Please don't get too cross with me,
Becasue I prefer it when you laugh.
Always be there for me Daddy,
For my stories and my bath.
Just keep doing what you're doing,
And I'm sure I'll turn out fine.
Of all the daddies in all the world,
Not one is better than mine.
Forget the superhero's Daddy,
And all that they can do.
All I want when I grow up,
Is to be just like you.
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Written by Josie (2785 comments posted) 12th June 2008 |
| Sarah, this is an excellent poem, but it should be in the Children's section. It's father's day (is it this Sunday) - and parents and teachers will see it there and read it to their children. You can easily move it. I think it is so, so very important that all children have a father in their lives. I'm sorry if I upset women who disagree, but I really feel very strongly about this. Men are so important to us all, young and old. I loved my Daddy and wish he were still here. |
I'm Gutted!
Written by Katanga (1229 comments posted) 12th June 2008 |
Hello Sarah!
My Dad died at the young age of 63, when I was 16 . . .
Horrid! I'm not sure which section this belongs in - for happy children, sure, in the children's section, as Josie rightly suggests.
For those poor children with broken homes or deceased fathers, it might all be too much? A lot of damage can be done through insensitivity on simple issues like this.
A teacher's / parent's judgement is needed here!
Love your poem, though!
For what it's worth, my own father was a very busy doctor, but one weekend he made some special time and took me on a 'Beetle Hunt' and we walked through the woods together, gathering bugs, spiders, beetles and general creepy-crawlies . . .
He held my hand all the way . . .
I will never forget that day, 46 years ago . . .
I think now, sadly, I understand your poem.
However, I thoroughly applaud it! Hey!
Cheers!
John XXX |
Daddy
Written by awakenedmind (48 comments posted) 13th June 2008 |
Sarah I read and understand what Josie says and whilst I can't disagree with her can I say from a Dad's point of view that if my daughter read that to me I would be in tears. So a poem for two markets?
I loved it, it hit the mark with me
Michael |
Written by Josie (2785 comments posted) 13th June 2008 |
| I said this because a little girl who has adopted me as her granny told me 2 years ago that she cried and cried and cried when she saw her friends buying Father's Day cards because she didn't have a daddy. He (and his mother) had walked out of her life when she was 4. She told me she cried until she went to bed. In the end I persuaded her to make a card for my husband, Mike, who, I said, didn't have a little girl to make one for him. She made him a beautiful card. Even if parents are apart, children still need to know there is a loving father in their lives somewhere in the world. She asked me one day: "Do you think my granny ever thinks of me? What about Daddy? Does he even think of me?" Children suffer, there is no doubt. |
Thank you
Written by lovelysarah1984 (81 comments posted) 13th June 2008 |
Thank you all for your kind words. I'm actually seperated from my son's father and I don't have a very good relationship with my own however this was written for my step son to give to my partner. He is a very devoted dad but worries how being apart from his son, for all of six days at a time, will effect him being a ggod dad.
But he is, he's fantastic and a great dad to my own boy.
Thanks again everyone! |
Hey
Written by littledom2008 (95 comments posted) 13th June 2008 |
This is really lovely. I don't know much about poetry but this really touched me. Thank you for sharing this with the site.
D.C |
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