Be the Father

Be the Father you wanted

Fatherhood poster
Originally uploaded by gumbootspearlz.

As long as that father is kind

and gentle-

As long as that father knows when to be

father before friend

and when to be friend as well as father.

Take them on all the promised fishing trips

Don't end up becoming the father

in a Cat Steven's song.

Be the father you wanted

If you did not have the father you wanted

But if you did then you can be the father you had

perhaps even moreso if that is possible.

(Words Gumbootspearlz)