Father Than Ever Before

A Tribute of Honor

Salute to the Fathers: those that put forth the effort, made the necessary sacrifices – and let’s not forget have been blessed – to establish a dwelling consisting of the nuclear family. By which I mean that their children and the Mother of those children reside under the same roof with them in love and harmony.

Respect to the Fathers: who, although they do not share a roof with their children, remain an active part of their lives, with or without a romantic relationship with the Mother.

Shout out to the Fathers: the ones kidnapped by a system designed to hold them hostage; whether Behind the Wall or on the streets. Implemented to destroy them – and by extension, the black and brown family – through disenfranchisement; disintegrating the very fabric of what makes us men. Yet they still find something with which to edify their lineage, even if only through moral and emotional support and encouragement.

Hand on heart admiration of Fathers: that defy the odds even while imprisoned, still providing for their flock, their pride, their tribe, their household, even from the depths of these dismal crypts, the belly of this beast that is a mainstay in the narrative of the inner city youth.

Deference due to the non-dna Fathers: true dads that raise children not of their loins, with love and care and patience and pain. Taking the babies and the women they committed to as one whole, with no distinction.

Compassion and a measure of grace to the Fathers: which failed – due to extenuating circumstances, misguided concepts of manliness, or a pure lack of maturity – to be part of the lives they took part in creating. Men that now, as a result of genuine growth, take full accountability and endeavor sincerely to bridge the pass of past-present-future to connect with their children.

Lastly…

Willing wishes for biological-only fathers that still look at their life-seeds and see with clouded vision anything other than what those children truly are: a metaphysical blueprint of their very selves.

Prayers, that they receive light, for themselves, for their children, for our Nation. That they may realize the blessing that is the deepest longing of the Men with Life Sentences – many, the only child of an only child – whose lineage ends with them.

Wherever you fit into the framework…

Happy Father’s Day!

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