The Good Father

He is the mountain anchoring the horizon.

He is the sea holding candles for stars.

He is the law on the tablet of wisdom.

He is both wind and the sheltering wall.

He is the stone foundation of homeland.

He is the sun raising day to the sky.

He is the rock his son builds his whole soul on,

and his daughter gets her wings from his eye.

Christopher Bernard is an award-winning poet and novelist. He is the author of two children’s books, If You Ride A Crooked Trolley . . . and The Judgment Of Biestia – the first in the “Otherwise” series.