Celebrating National Poetry Month
In honor of National Poetry Month, I have asked LTS staff members to send me their favorite poems or their original poetry. Each day during April, I will post their selections to LTS’s Facebook page and to the LTS Twitter feed, @lehighlib. Original poetry will appear here in Sages of the Pages. Today we have an original poem written by Larry Simek, a computer technician on LTS’s Technology Installation and Maintenance Services Team.
ACTIONS OF LOVE
Daddy, you have a Saints name we all know
And daddy, you’ve gone to the big show
I’m here to rhyme my feelings for you
Some may hate me for it, but to me it is all true
Daddy, I remember waiting for you to come home from work
I’d sit on the street corner for all it was worth
You’d cross the street and take my hand and walk us home
Oh how I wish it were a “real” home
I never heard you say the word “love”
But deep down inside I knew it was a word you thought of
You did so many things to show your love for us, for me
I never got to say “I love you for that daddy”
Daddy, I remember one winter’s night
My hands almost having frostbite
You put them under running water, then rubbed them between your hands
That was love, (no words but action) from where I stand
This next part is especially from MY heart
Many people may not believe this part
It’ll be like dropping a bomb
But I know daddy always loved mom
Daddy, I remember falling asleep on the floor
You would carry me to bed, and quietly close the door
All these little “ACTIONS OF LOVE” made you the best daddy
I just hope I can be half the dad you were to me
Daddy, I remember as a kid asking you for money
You always said the same thing, which now seems funny
“What do you think I am, a bank”
Sometimes you gave, when you didn’t my heart sank
Well daddy, once again my heart is sinking
But this time it’s just from thinking
I should have seen you more and taken everyone else’s lead
But instead all I can say is Gods speed daddy, Gods speed
Larry Simek
6/3/99
For my dad, John Stephen Simek, I love you