When men father children
then decide they’ve had enough
and leave to find their fortunes
while their children are scared and scruff.
Who will stay to find solutions
to the mounting sense of dread
of young children who are baffled
and are crying and are sad?
What kind of father is a man
who lives without remorse
of the pain he causes children
with his callousness of force?
What lessons does a father
teach to prime his only son
if he sets to hurt with purpose
and inflict harm on his own?
What examples do young girls
grasp from watching the only man
who is said to be their savior
if their mother he sets to maim?
What is in the message
of a man who lashes out
on his woman and her children
to abandon them without?
Who had given men the power
to bleed and cripple and extort
and to cause such wrenching grief
to the families that they abort?
Who will stay to clean the mess
and assure that sons abound
don’t repeat their fathers’ follies
when their turn comes around?
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©Yakira Shimoni Fulks
December 27, 1998 | Graymoor, IL
Asaf Fulks — Put The Weapons Down
+++++Excellent! TRUE THAT
Kira Shimoni Fulks: Thank you Eli! Unfortunately true and so sad.
Magnificent write!
… on Father’s Day the hurt surfaces! Pain has to be released and expressed. Very well said!
Excellent Kira Fulks! An honest look at the brutal truth. Those who get it…get it. Children learn by example. Beautifully delivered 👏👏
Oh my what a powerful piece of writing so many layers of truth in this….I was taught so many things…families we all have patterns…many good and some very bad… “fathers don’t provoke your children with anger”……”watch how a man treats his mother.” (from my mom’s lips)…and so forth….very well done!!!!! Thank you for sharing ❤
This is very close to my heart Kira Fulks! In my real life’s work you just described.Well done!
Oh, Kira, I felt every word so deeply, so deeply, the emotion; frustration and devastation. I also feel so much strength from the woman who wrote this and how she still goes on with the pain.