Who Do You Choose
Your father said
Don’t waste your time
His focus now
Are my daughters of mine
What he doesn’t know
Is the girls are okay
It’s our son who needs us
At the end of the day
I spoke to our youngest
And said what I feel
For her it’s unending
My love is so real
She does everything right
Such a gift to me
And yet my focus
Is the child who won’t see
I take away
From the daughter who tries
To be everything
And has never told lies
She deserves better than this
I do understand
But it’s so very hard
To make a child a man
Be what have I hoped
And know that is there
So full of love
And one day will care
Care for me
As I do for him
And worry and fret
That life won’t be grim
The path that he’s taken
Does not bode well
Jail’s his last option
His mistakes are my hell
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