-, A Time Before</head><body><center><center><img src=http://www.saviodsilva.com/p1.gif border=0 alt=Saviodsilva></center><hr color=3C00FF size=4><br><font size=4 face=arial><b><a href=13.htm>-</a></b></font><br><center><img src=http://www.saviodsilva.net/poem/a/1.JPG border=0 alt=Poem></center><br><font size=3 face=arial><b>A Time Before</a></b></font></center><blockquote><blockquote><p align=left><font face=arial size=2><b>I remember, up so high on Daddy's shoulders,<br>Apples hanging near my eye, the leaves around my head.<br>Reaching up his hand plucked the shiny apple red<br>And placed it in my tiny hands.<br>Then onward through the park, sun and shadow,<br>Rippled light and dark across his path.<br>Stopping, stooping, his hand, my eyes to guide,<br>Pointed to a daisy at his feet. He held it to my nose<br>To sniff the flower scented sweet, and lo, before he rose again,<br>A yellow-golden butterfly paused a moment to sip honey from its center sun.<br>Dad held it still and I beheld the slender straw in which the necterfilled<br>To satisfy that butterfly.<br>Dad moved, I on his back, and crossed the track<br>Where trains once rolled through mists before the rising sun.<br>Now to the sea- Stretching to infinity beyond the curve of appled glen.<br>Dad leaned- And I in that mirror there, reflected golden hair, in blue.<br>I laughed, he smiled. Into the air I rose safe in his arms<br>Then down to grassy shore to play some more.<br>We loved a lifetime in those few years,<br>Or so my Mother said. But now-<br>Dad's dead.</b></font></p></blockquote></blockquote><hr color=0000ca size=3><center><font size=2 face=arial><b><a href=http://www.isavo.net/poem/sk2.htm>This Poem's Index Page 1</a><br><a href=http://www.yensa.net/poem/sk2.htm>This Poem's Index 2</a><br><a href=http://www.isavo.com/poems.htm>Poetry Website</a><br><a href=http://www.saviodsilva.com>Saviodsilva</a><br><a href=http://www.isavo.com>Isavo Site</a></b></font></center><SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript SRC=http://www.saviodsilva.org/r/fantasy.js></SCRIPT></body></html>