For Father’s Day, a wish and an assessment

more rain is needed to make a rainbow

Photo by J. Harrington

Wishing you a Happy Father's Day. Mine, so far, has been joyful, but also, essentially, rainless. So that we may all get to enjoy and share many more Father's Days with each other, let's remember and follow this guidance:

Shoulders

Naomi Shihab Nye

1952 – 

A man crosses the street in rain,
stepping gently, looking two times north and south,
because his son is asleep on his shoulder.

No car must splash him.
No car drive too near to his shadow.

This man carries the world’s most sensitive cargo
but he’s not marked.
Nowhere does his jacket say FRAGILE,
HANDLE WITH CARE.

His ear fills up with breathing.
He hears the hum of a boy’s dream
deep inside him.

We’re not going to be able
to live in this world
if we’re not willing to do what he’s doing
with one another.

The road will only be wide.
The rain will never stop falling.

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