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posted by [personal profile] devohoneybee at 07:02pm on 18/06/2006
Father's Day

Methos shades his eyes
and looks to the sky.
Sky Father, Earth Mother,
they sometimes said,
in the places he has lived.
And sometimes, Sky Mother,
Earth Father.

Horns and hooves and dancing in the grove.
They didn't need a ceremony
to feel "male bonding" --
it came naturally enough from hunting,
wooing, comrades in arms --
strong arms, and stronger hearts...

Methos sips the wine in the slender glass
he's brought into the greensward
in the city where he currently resides.
A libation? Not to "the god"
not to mentors, masters, kings,
and certainly not to a "father" who is at best,
hypothetical. Not to brothers, gone now,
though he pauses for a moment
on that thought.

"I am my own," he intones, then laughs a little
at the solemnity of his delivery.
"..Progenitor, patron, papa."
Too long ago, or perhaps,
simply made too alien
by the passage of time...

He squints again, into the sun.
In a language he's forgotten, let alone
can name,
there is a word for "Daddy."
There are 7 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 
posted by [identity profile] sundara.livejournal.com at 04:23am on 19/06/2006
That's so Methos! Yes! You've really captured him. That's exactly what he would do/think when prompted to think about "father".

"I am my own." Yes, oh yes.
 
posted by [identity profile] devohoneybee.livejournal.com at 06:06am on 20/06/2006
hee! glad you liked it.
 
posted by [identity profile] jimpage363.livejournal.com at 06:34am on 19/06/2006
Lovely. Truly Methos.
 
posted by [identity profile] devohoneybee.livejournal.com at 06:06am on 20/06/2006
thank you. :)
 
posted by [identity profile] ekaterinn.livejournal.com at 03:56pm on 19/06/2006
Oh, lovely. Very Methos indeed.
 
posted by [identity profile] devohoneybee.livejournal.com at 06:06am on 20/06/2006
Thank you, glad you liked. :)
 
posted by [identity profile] devohoneybee.livejournal.com at 06:07am on 20/06/2006
ps i need more methos icons... that one isn't really right LOL.

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