A father's love <br />Can never match <br />A mother's… <br />At least in <br />Children's eyes… <br /> <br />A father's love <br />Cannot be shown <br />As easily <br />As in <br />a mother's sighs <br /> <br />A father's love <br />Is of labor dear <br />More distant so by nature <br />than… in tender <br />nurture lies <br /> <br />A father's love <br />Is of hidden tears <br />And rarely <br />Shown raw <br />emotions <br /> <br />Held within <br />A rough façade <br />Of gentle heart… <br />Of kind and <br />Cloistered emotions <br /> <br />Fathers withhold <br />Within themselves <br />Caring feelings (and memories) <br />Of small smiles <br />And big wide eyes <br /> <br />Fathers hold back <br />Tears inside while… <br />drying other's eyes <br />Yet fathers weep Inside, <br />so deep…most children <br />Know not why <br /> <br />And more than once <br />I caught a peek of tears <br />In my dad's eyes <br />And on his cheek <br />Fathers are … <br />of stern stuff made <br />Yet fathers <br />…Often cry…<br /><br />David Whalen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/oft-saw-my-dad-cry-to-dad/
