My Words to My Grown Up Son

 I’d like to thank you, to express my gratitude.

I acknowledge the fact that I’m bringing you up against the society’s normal latitude. 

I admit I am different, and sometimes show you attitude 

Excuse me for all that you think is rude, crude and shrewd 

But, believe me when I say this, 

I have more numbers in my pocket. 

I can cage the essence of the socket 

For I carry age…that’s different in my locket.

I’ve walked the path, 

And I’ve  tread the way. 

Self-discovery came to me at quite a later stage. 

Thus, I want to give you all that in advance.

Make you see and have a glance!

To all there is, and all that can be.

Remember one thing, l am yours for eternity. 

You have grown today, 

You do have many ways. 

To convenience me, 

Or to ashame.

Life comes in many shades

Yours is to yours, and mine is to mine to taste 

All I’ll say is to remember Thy Grace,

 And thy fate.

When thy ate, that acted as bait.

God told Adam to stay away. 

Away from the forbidden way. 

The way that led to the unpromised stay.

Everything was promised other than that. 

That’s when he was asked to go, 

And find his own path through his acts. 

For he did step, and ate from that

And my son, that is the eternal fact

So my angle, my child, my first born alive.

I will have some rules for you to act.

I know you may not like them, 

And that too is an act.

But, remember that I love you,

And that is a much larger fact. 

And for that, I bring you up differently

Which you will realize all at last. 

But in the process of it all. 

I owe you my gratitude, 

And acknowledge your call. 

That sometimes I am tough,

And sometimes it is rough;

But, remember no prophet had it easy

All of them had it rough.

So visual the garden beyond the path,

And use that incentive,

To make all acts intensive.

In faith of, “I will get all I ain’t have, in the promised land.”