My Own Father

In the beginning there was God our father who created man,
and now there's this man that created me, my own father.
I plead with those people who for some reasons don't like God
to chill and listen to me when I speak about my own soul father.

My own father is no more a stranger but a soul father.
For about ± 15 years or so, my own father was more like a stranger.
Listen to me very carefully when I talk of this great man
who was once more like a stranger.
He is so great and powerful that I never heard my mother
the queen complaining about my father.

However my father was more like a stranger since he was
not there to see me growing to be this man today.
The strange part is that I know why this man was never there to witness me growing.

You see my own father is a soul father
who never had time to teach me about life at young age.
He never had time to tell me the difference between right & wrong.
He never had time for us to have that one on one bond
We all familiar with this saying "like father like son"
Well, in my case it was more like mother like son.
Still I know why this man never had time for that.

My own father is no more a stranger but a soul father.
He has been trying very hard all these years to be a family man
but situations that time forced him to be a firmly hard working man
in that firm somewhere in Joburg for a white man.
Don't get me wrong I don't have any beef for my father or
the white man for that matter,
However my father still devoted his time just not to his family but to others.

My own father is no more a stranger but a soul father,
who never had enough money to buy me the luxury equipment to play those computer games.
He never had time to encourage me to do maths & physics in school.
But, my father spent every little cent he had to give me
Something he never had – Education.
You probably saying you've heard one that before
However, my situation was different as I had no choice to choose
the quality of education I wanted,
but I'm not complaining coz my father made sure that I get education
that was there and accessible.
That is why I decided to write poetry

My own father is no more a stranger but a soul father,
Who provided everything but not time for his family.
Right now I don't have any fancy words to describe you father any further.
But one thing I can remember you taught me
not to be a beggar, to be a chooser
You told me not to be a looser, to be a winner
You told me not to speak to a stranger,
Doesn't matter how persuasive is the stranger
Coz I might expose myself to danger.

Just a little reminder, each and every step my father took for me
to be this better, is a step that I took to climb a success ladder.
A ladder that once you finished climbing
you can easily say I have arrived.
Academic orientated people refer to this theory as Self Actualisation.
One can find this theory in Maslow`s Hierarchy of Success.

My own father is no more a stranger but a soul father,
Even though I waited for him & those better days,
Instead of these dangerous days,
The youth today is so exposed to these harmful games
Oh, its such a shame, maybe they don't have unique fathers

It's no longer the case where all fathers work hard as gold diggers
But they more like mind readers
When matters arise no one is willing to be a compromiser
not even when blood is a little bit thinner than water
yes not when blood is a little bit thinner than water
Everyone just wants to go deeper and deeper to be a sinner
But with God by his side, my own father is a peace maker
And I'm no more a day dreamer but a poetry writer
Coz my own father is no more a stranger but a soul father