Face Of A Thug

Father
Look at me now
Do I make you proud?

Father
I get knock down and I get up again
I cry not
But my legs tremble
Do I make you proud?

Father
I made my step to adulthood
Without your father figure
Had my first beating today
But I cry not
Do I make you proud?

Father
Buy me a gun today
Made my first kill
I cry not
But I weep inside
Why Father?

Father
I'm a man now
Looking through my barred sky
I cry not
But I shake inside
Where are you Father?

Father
Today I face my chair
Going to look for you
Will you be proud of me.... Father?
 

© 31st January 2000