Father's Day

I think it strange
having a day for Fathers,
for God Our Father,
Our loving Father
and us
his shadow.

Mothers
are so forgiving and understanding of us...
we have our bad habits and hangups
Fathers
we are, trying
to do the best we can, dragging,
the whole family along.

Certainly we have our dark moments
where the shadow of apes take over,
dark moments that flood in tears,
dark moments
until we are Out,
we do not know that we are in.

Father's Day...
we try to fix what is broken,
we try to reduce the bills
to keep our hobbies
which keep us sane, the world
goes insane if we ask too many questions.

God our Father
is perfect,
we are marked with imperfections
run afoul of our needs,
our direction is imperfect
and cowardice as well as peer pressure
drag us onward.