for jason
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your life is written across your aged face
for me to read, deciphering through the lines
learning of all the years I have to come
your experiences teach me of pain and destruction
yet triumph peaks out between the tears
hiding being our troubled eyes
the same eyes able to see beatuy,
the good in me
which I see reflected in you
and my wish for you is to continue believing
that one day the answers will come
and confusion will fade
the same day you come hom
to your daughter, saying "Daddy's here"
and holding your son,
you'll know you're the only father
they will ever need and love
and you my friend, will be a memory,
a strength I won't forget
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