This Man

This father helps bath children, brush teeth, tuck in, and he prays.

He heads to his father's house to care for him all through the night- at every call for help.

He honors his father and the Bible says, now his days will be long. I say, now he is honorable.

He wakes a final time in wee morning hours to prepare his father's breakfast and lunch for the day before heading back home to his family.

Us.

We missed him and how glad I am to wake hearing the front door being unlocked. It is him, he is back to care for us now.

The morning still dim, sleep eyes still shut. He prepares another breakfast. For us. We wake to the smell of maple before heading out to the wetlands for an adventure with this man, this father.

Our pancakes.

In the car, each of us served a brown paper sack while being buckled quietly in.

Children know that this man teaches you how to live by living.