To Fathers, With You In Mind
Father man, valued planner
and earner at your wife's side,
pillar of our homes,
children's needs are met
with your fathering
and in return you're a happy father.
“Our Father in heaven...."
pray the people, that's your appraisal.
Respectful,
knitting the social web
is strong influence for your children.
You're riding waves
bringing home calmness.
In the manhood of fathers
I found mine,
chance met choice.
You fathered the way I needed to,
and I am as you wished for me to be.
We heard together rains and winds,
but birds and singers too,
and running waters,
and mother's voice:
"you two ....."
mother was always overlooking.
Oh mother.. Father said not me
and I laughed, who was it then,
liked to think of me as troublemaker
because I was not.
I looked for you in me,
my children is my decision,
you show me the road to bravery
chasing the barking dog away,
invulnerable on your shoulders
I felt this world is mine too.
Innocent cheater, I still wait
to listen music in rainfall
and I forget I don't like rain.
You're a spirit in my mind
and a man in our lives,
you kept the rudder straight
for us to have and we had.
In bad times you said it's ok,
you convinced me and so I felt.
Noble manners with
sharp cutting edges,
you only gave in to mother,
she said, you didn't answer,
you laughed, you left.
Your advice is reason,
you said school is good,
I believed you,
I rip the gains now,
mother first priority,
yes she is,
brothers and sisters above all,
yes they are,
bare children, look.
With you in mind I went far in life
and from there went further
feeling secure in mind, where
your strengths are mine too.
I have a dreamed hope,
for an honored child
is parent's biggest honor.
Changes dad, changes,
you lied to me once and for all,
your flesh was not made
of the same staff as your bones,
clocks measure mine now.
Fathers's hearts, never cut their lives short.
Copyright © Faysunkle Fay's Unkle | Year Posted 2018
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