October Poems 2024 >> a fine son

A poem for each day of the month in which I was born
 
DAY 23
a fine son
 
A Birthday Psalm for my Son
Javon Andrew Phillips Bowen (b. October 23)
 
a fine son is a many-splendoured thing
of which the universe is proud to sing;
for from the loins of one man comes an heir
to celebrate him who, before, was there.
 
a fine son knows the lineage of the earth,
for in it gales the echoes of his birth,
whose dust to dustman rises from the ground
to rule, with wisdom, choices that abound
 
to every man who drinks the breath of life.
a fine son glories not in war and strife,
but pacifies the burgeoning of thorns,
whose increment, adorned with bloody horns,
 
makes dread the pavement of man’s wilderness.
there is a duty still indigenous
a fine son ought to honour to the death:
the Law of Love entire to the nth,
 
for into it his own son should be born
when I AM smiles upon his friday morn.
yet, since he was not meant to be alone,
a fine son wears the bones of someone's bone.
 
© Copyright 2024 October 23
by Clyve A. Bowen♫