FATHER'S LOVE

FATHER'S LOVE

One may perhaps wonder

Or perhaps may never know

The anguish and the pain

When all of a sudden

You feel left out in the cold

Out in the open.

Confided, trusted and loved

A girl's life and honour is put at stake.

The brunt of it all

I find too much to take

My child crying in the corner there I see

As though through my body

Her veins I feel

And make me share

In her grief, tears, sorrow and pain.

This for my child

I wish never to happen

When one day you will

A father be

When all that your child does

And feels will run through your body.

Every pain and hurt even in the hearts 

Of the entire family.

As time goes by surely

From the shock she will recuperate

Just like the time when by your bed-side

She silently sat and prayed

For your hurt and pain to heal

And to be yourself again.

Tough as it may now seem to be

She may eventually even learn to love to hate

The person she bestowed her love upon;

In her naivety the love she gave

Which seems like a farce

And a mess you helped create.

Tony Fernandes