A Father's Fate

A poem and a prayer

I composed this poem in my head last Saturday around 4 am, when I was rocking my little one to sleep.

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A Father's Fate

Dear God, 
First I pray you protect, bless, and guide
My wife and my child. 
I pray you do the same for me too, 
But do it third. 
And if you should bless us with another, 
Then down the list I go - 
And so on and so forth. 
Love, health, joy, strength, and abundance - 
May these five be the pillars that hold us. 
May none within this family see six feet before me. 
But long before then,
May many decades pass with these loves as my seventh heaven. 
Dear God, I pray this be my fate.

I.I.

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P.S.: You can listen to me reciting it if you press the ‘Play‘ button at the top of this post if you haven’t done so already. And let me know what you think in the comments.

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