Son to Father

Son to Father



When you have harrowed what I’ve ploughed,

you will have made your old Dad proud.

When you achieve what I have done,

I’ll be pleased to call you son.



Dad, you have said this all my life.

You still do it now that I have a wife.

I never did produce an heir.

The ancestral line is stopped right there.



You wanted a son just like you,

an impossible task for me to do.

You have set an unreachable goal.

To live your life is not my role.



I have travelled along my own road

and sometimes carried a heavy load.

I live my life the best I can

and try to be a decent man.