The Responsibilities

There was a certain father

Who gave everything to his children

Life, healthy, strength and wisdom

His children grew in the nurture of his love and even though he had a hard time saying it, they felt and knew it. When the youngest was preteen and the others were teenagers, that father decided to marry again, he fell in love with a friend although the children forbade it. Father you are our source, you are our strength and we cannot share you, mother abandon us but you kept and guide us this far and we are grateful however this stranger comes to take you from us and we know her not. The father explained, haven't I loved you with an inbounding love, haven't I cared for you. My love has not changed but it has grown. Pretty soon in six or ten years, you will have your own lives. I did not labor in vain. A mother I could not give you until now. Why won't you open your hearts to the power of love? But I cannot abandon my children. He called off the wedding and remained friends. He grew old and his children became his life as his friend left him for holding her too long and not fighting for their love.