While typing would have been nice <br />Calculus was the order of the day. <br />When summer drew a call for more of friendship's tie <br />The structure of 'Y' Camp was the discipline that would stay. <br />For such small things work great to kill the boy <br />But how, or even if, they build the man - <br />If this is the bottom line - <br />I am not so sure and even in my farther years <br />Still do not understand. <br />For joy seems to lead on to joy and pain to pain <br />When we make of life the competition <br />from which our father's came, <br />I fear a great portion of our souls are lost and - <br />What is far worse - there is a great deal that is not gained.<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/strong-fathers/
