A Beautiful Place for My Dad

       

           A Beautiful Place for My Dad

 

 

                           By Jade

 

 

Today, I checked out a place for my dad

 

Spacious living room with a fireplace and a piano 

I would play a tune or two for him during each visit

“Your piano is getting better”, he would say

 

A sunroom with comfortable chairs, and

fresh cut flowers on the table, where

he would read history books in sunset

lost in the fire and smoke of his own glorious past

 

Bird feeders hanging outside the window

a squirrel is eating bird seeds with no guilt at all 

my dad would adopt them, as he usually does 

 

A courtyard with fountains and butterfly bushes 

looping around the house is a botanical walk

with a rain garden and a pollinator garden 

 

My dad is not a gardener, but 

he raised three daughters, who became

two business professors and one corporate executive 

he certainly knows a little about growing flowers 

 

Tomorrow, my dad will move to this place

for hospice care, a place where 

his last breath will dance with angels in thin air

 

A place, where I would visit often, for years to come

looking for his smile in “magic lilies”, and 

hearing his gentle voices in fountains and wind chimes

 

 

 

 

                       Written on August 9, 2019