This one time I wrote a Father's Day Poem

I should preface this by saying that my father was out of the country during Father's Day so I just wrote him this poem a few weeks ago.  I cried writing it and he cried reading it which is a sign of a good poem to me.

A Poem For My Father

Long fingers push the back of my bicycle

Streamers fly in the wind

Skinny legs pedal as fast as they can

Crooked teeth expose a giant smile

Memories float to the surface in remembrance

Flat stones skip across an ocean sky

Baseballs thrown and caught in a grassy field

Small limbs undulate to dramatic music

You are my loving father

Human elevator

Over-complicated math tutor

Family genealogy instructor

And loving father

When my hands are wrinkled

And years have passed

My heart will burst in remembrance

Of twirling in white with you by my side