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[aid] => mick
[title] => His Eyes
[time] => 2006-01-02 10:40:46
[hometext] => To my father
[bodytext] => A family of the past One of the present Separated by decades of time His everlasting smile The cover to a book Hiding and protecting The pages contained within His eyes are the portals To the words and the stories His eyes read of compassion and love For family, friends and life They explode with richness From a life set at full throttle They read of pain and sorrow For loves taken far too soon His eyes have shown hopelessness As the captured dreams escaped At times filled with anger and despair Hateful of life’s coldness Privately the tears flow Creating pools filled with bittersweet memories He speaks of little or no faith Yet his eyes tell differently They teach of tolerance and understanding Reaching out to those unknown Helping those that may even mean harm A family of the past One of the present Their souls intertwined Bound together for eternity By the love of one man [comments] => 1 [counter] => 163 [topic] => 23 [informant] => OhSaige [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => FamilyPoems )
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