Poetry


"His Fathers Child"


His father he was to be denied,

but not in vain, for his father's
fights he was given his fathers name.
To know his father and of his fathers love.


A father's child is without shame

when he is there for all the
praiseing things
Being loved and feeling love more than just having his father's name.


To nurture or dicipline is thought

to be all too often, traditionally different.
The roles of the father for his child are the same.
To be his father's child is more to him than just to have his father's name.



Written from the heart by Ronald Neal Strickland
'His Father's Child' is © 2002



We would like to thank "Ronald" for generously allowing us to reproduce his work; he retains all rights to this work.






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