Parenthesis

A father is a redundant lover
seamlessly displaced by his progeny,
(a blinkered provider, worker, 
absent for many of life’s milestones,
a time-poor spectator to growing lives
a parallel source 
of endless and unconditional love)
a hunter a gatherer of resources
a hoarder of unused love
destined to be reserved
and poured on the heads
of his progeny’s progeny
finally to become once more
an unconditional lover
circle complete.

© Graham Sherwood 06/2018