Like Father Like Son

In your mother's eyes I catch the first sight A miracle in our lives so vibrant and bright The pride of all married folk A pride we will soon revoke. Kicking into the air, you're inaugurated into my life As I teach you everything I know. You looked up to me with your innocent eyes A curse that the heavens will bestow. Your trust in me became resentment As you grew thinking you knew more. All I sacrificed for you Faced my worst fears, endured your mother's tears, holding fate tightly near, You failed to appreciate And instead turned away from me To you I began to depreciate As you turned soonest to the sea. And those eyes are still the same But everything around them has changed. I raised you to be the best You turned out as bad as the rest. Children are sweet in their innocent youth Believing what you say and saying what they mean. But it seems this world twists and turns Changing the once pure inner soul. And with a flip of a switch, a turn of the knob The child you knew turns against you. But can we say we were surprised? We did the same to our fathers. Rebelled, as we beheld rage We too were once miracles and now we're living hell As the maturity of time grips and makes us bitter Bitter is time's emitter. So let us return to those who bore us Set an example for our offspring to mimic us Because without em, there won't be anyone left to mourn us.