This is a poem about a central theme that runs throughout everything that I write. Indeed, it is simply another attempt to express what lies at the heart of my view of life: what I call the “threefold mystery” of childhood, spousehood, and paternity. This is what I have progressively discovered to be the three forms of relationship that are inscribed most deeply in our humanity and for which all of us yearn. For me, however, this reality is most clear, not as an abstract “standard” for life, but rather as a concrete, day-to day truth, welling up from our deepest experience of love and being loved. I hope it helps you in some way!
