To be a papa is a good thing. It’s to be happy when your child is having fun. To be proud and grateful and appreciate the dawning of all the morning suns.

It’s to feel less lonely, never alone, there’s always someone there when everyone else has packed up and gone home.

It’s to live in a state of hope, hope that they will do the work that you didn’t get done. Or start a revolution, but not one with a gun.

To fight for justice, fairness and equality and to smash through those ceilings like my generation should have done.

And to live peacefully too. To cherish their own loved ones. To know what love is and to affect those that matter. Not to cast the proverbial stone. For, who is, after all, without sin.

Yes. To be a papa is to be and to be is no longer just me. Together, we make three.

Poem

CQM

Fathers Day

18th June 2023

No ChatGPT was used to write this.