Caden's Poem for Father's Day

 A SON OF DAVID

ILLUSION BROKE WITH THAT REPLY

"HIS FATHER'S BUSINESS", BOY DID SAY

AND SO HE KNEW OF JOSEPH'S LIE

THE ONE HE TOLD HIMSELF EACH DAY

HE PRAYED THIS TIME WOULD TARRY LONG

THAT HE MIGHT PLAY THE FATHER'S PART

A FEW YEARS MORE COULD DO NOT WRONG

PRTEND THIS CHILD WAS HIS AT HEART

ALAS THE CHIMERA DID CEASE

FOR CHRIST DISCERNED HIS PATRIARCH

THE HIGH KING TO HIS PRINCE OF PEACE

AS PROXY DRIFTED TO THE DARK

PERHAPS THAT NAZARENE BELIEVED

HIS PATERNAL TENURE WAS SPENT

TOHE WHOME HE HAD NOT CONCEIVED

LAY GODLY GLORY AND ASCENT

"SURELY TRANSCENDED I, HAS HE 

THE HEIR TO GOD SHALL BE HIS CALL

A SCRIBE OR PRIEST I SEE HIM BE

MY LINE WILL MATTER, NOT AT ALL."

BUT WRONG WAS JOSEPH IN THIS WISE

AS "SON OF MAN" WAS CHRIST CONTENT

AND CARPENTER WAS HE LIKEWISE

ADOPTING DAVIDIC DESCENT

THIS LAMB DID HONOR ITS BEARER

BOTH THE MORTAL AND THE DIVINE

THOUGH JOSEPH PASSED, MAKE NO ERROR

HE BEHELD THE WONDERS AND SIGNS

OTHERS SAID TO HIS GLAD TIDINGS

"IS NOT THIS THE CARPENTER'S SON?"

NO DENIAL FOUND IN WRITINGS

MORE CHERISHED THAN JOSEPH? NOT ONE

NO NEARER CAN MAN TO GOD BE

THAN TO FATHER ANOTHER SOUL

FOR A PRODIGAL YOUTH WAS HE

BUT NOW RUNS TO MAKE OTHERS WHOLE