How I Love You Son Poem by Tony Kavuoti

How I love you son

You are the rising sun

I am the setting sun


All the things I seen over here

All the pain, ignorance, distortions, pretense I had to bear


This insidious hell I would do it again

Just to experience the joy of you


The best of humanity comes through you


I wish that I became more

Lost in the dark I cultivated ways of staying lost

Light within and light without, steadily transcended, stayed on course

Through scattered pieces synthesize the hologram

Being human first,being a man

Many dreams were dashed


Many dreams fulfilled

Learned to be careful as to who I share my soul with

Many successes as a result of trusting my depths, not others perceptions of me,courage and sustain effort

Even if I fulfilledmy greatest dreams

None compared to the joy of you


I am dyslexic am my father's a classic narcissist

No tolerance with the novelty ofmy being

My strengths were seen as heresies

Weaknesses broadcast, seen as unredeemable

Early on ground todust

Until you, I did not know the depths of love, of life, of the joy of being,

Seemingly trivial daily exchangesradiate, give more joy than anything in cultural societal orbit

Others run you know how to fly with your dyslexic wings


The creative glory of being yourself

Your voice is more heaven than I could ever imagine.