My Dad

I have journeyed many miles, in my 27 years.
I have laughed more than most, and shed a lot of tears.
I have known what it means to have and have not
I have learned to be content with what I already got.
I have searched high and low, wide and deep
I have traveled through time, I have studied Socrates
I have searched the Net, I have searched the seas
I have wondered many places, I have crawled on my knees
Searching nooks and crannies, all crevices all cracks
And what I have found, what each one of them lack
Is my Dad, my father, my friend indeed
What kind of place would this world be?
If not for you, your guidance and direction
You provided security, warmth and protection.
You taught me to fish, you taught me to swim
You taught me to drive, to be a leader of men
You taught me work, you taught me to see-
The good in others and the good in me.
You still teach me now, I watch and I learn
From a distance I see, the treasure you earn
Not here on Earth, but stored up above
You build not with money, but with hours of love
Foundations of truth, girded with integrity
Honor, and Strength, peace, and purity
God is mysterious, we know not his ways
But I thank him for you, for all of the days
The days that I’ve known you, the times that we’ve had
I thank him for you- I thank him for Dad.

Happy Fathers Day