Legacy From My Dad

Dad passed away before I became a man A man whom he had found a wife A wife to build life with to mature Mature as she gives me cute kids Kids I have to toil for day and night Night when I think deep about life Life generating thoughts for solutions Solutions to life's current challenges Challenges strengthening my heart Heart residing inside a man of value Value I had to defend at all costs Costs that sometimes lead to wounds Wounds of man, a real man to leave legacy Legacy on the land of my audacious father Father I am today because of my father. Poem by N. Mugisho