Inheritance From My Father
Inheritance from My Father
It is with grateful heart I traverse this way,
For the respects I wish to pay,
To my Daddy who lived his whole life with attitude,
But it is for those aspects of him that I feel the deepest gratitude,
His loud and brash personality,
A man with a low tolerance for foolery,
Not afraid to call you out on on your deeds,
if he did not agree
Never afraid to stand alone
As he gave voice to what mattered,
Always in favor of the underdog.
His love of all this music has been passed to me
His jaunts on the trombone, melodies on the sax or harmonica,
some of which I never appreciated until I came of age
Herein lay the man whose creativity knew no bounds
From jouvert portrayals to carnival bands
right to the gastronomic creations weaved in the kitchen
Some of which he shared with the community
All testimony to his spirit of entrepreneurship
I can only love and show this deep appreciation for
the man who now resides as part of me
and my creativity.
The things handed down to me,
Much of which I did not ask for
and took some time for me to explore
but for now I cherish the things that make me proud
and even allows me to stand out in the crowd
My inheritance that maketh me rich
For which there will be no switch
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