In this poem I think that the dad loves hes son but he know that for his son to grow up he has to let him go.

first the poem start with the write saying “it is eighteen years ago almost to th day ” this show he is trying to explain a personal experience where u has have to leave his family for example in the text the writer says  i can see you walking away from me towards the school” this suggests the personal experience he is talking about is his first day at school when he had to walk away from his dad for the first time I