I MISS YOU FATHER
by Teresita Perez
Best wishes to you, dear father,
on this your most special day
when, although absent, I pray
you celebrate many others.
May the memories you gather
bring comfort in many ways,
even feeling my embrace,
for although we're far apart,
the desire of my heart
is to see and kiss your face.
I remember youthful years
when we used to be together,
building memories that ever,
though apart, shall keep us near.
And as I hold back a tear
reminiscing yonder days,
distant in both time and space,
I want you, father, to know
my desire is to go
to see you and kiss your face.
Perhaps you wonder if I
ever stop and think of you.
I want you to know I do
since that day we said good-bye.
Now all I can do is try
to reach you in other ways,
for though fate found me a place
in such a distant location,
here in my imagination,
I can see and kiss your face.
Impossible to forget
is the one I love so much,
whom I desire to touch,
though I can't do it just yet,
but whose tender silhouette
in my mind I seem to trace
reaching in tender embrace
in spite of the many miles,
until that day filled with smiles
when I'll see and kiss your face.
Copyright © 2000, 2020 to Teresita Perez
The theme of this poem was inspired by a poem my dad wrote after he moved to New York City from Cuba.
He wrote it for his father, whom he did never see again. Here's my dad's poem in Spanish: A Mi Padre Ausente.
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