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Fathers
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
Eric Pettigrew
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Poem
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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IDEA
The most beautiful idea on the face of the earth is the idea the child has that his father knows everything. Jack Kerouac, The Town and the City
Memories beat inside a hollow chest
As I awaken to a sledgehammer of sorrow
I hear you say:
The best of thoughts are tears
When words will soothe tomorrow
I feel the circle close
As your lifewill's slowly broken
You're gone
And now it's me who knows
The truth of what you've spoken
Father, further will I try to band
That ring each has of winning
But sometimes
An end must be at hand
To realise a beginning.
To my Dad. With love.
November 1994