What is a successful father?

To a Successful Father with love.

What goes into making a father?
And when does the making begin?
Is it simply the birth of a child?
Or when love is shared from within?

Is it just a biological link?
Or is it more the desire to love?
Is it a physical state of our being?
Or is it a spiritual gift from above?

The answers are ours to choose.
The proof is in how we live.
Some fathers are better than others.
The difference lies in the love that they give.

Look back at the life you have lived.
Examine the seeds you have sewn.
How much of yourself did you give?
How have your children grown?

Are you a success or a failure?
Are your children your friends or your foes?
There are many who feel worthy to judge you,
but you are the only one who truly knows.

Take heart in the life you are living,
and in the lives that your children now lead.
Take heart in your life of self-giving,
and in the children who now live your creed.

No one cares

Shadows cast upon a wall.
One mother and her children all.
Shadows come and shadows go,
and like her children, the shadows never know.

Shadows cast upon a wall.
Show mother's love is not for all.
Some shadows go, do not return.
Mother's soul in Hell will burn.

Shadows cast upon a wall.
Mother's choice serves to appall.
Shadows show her choice is man.
No one cares. No one understands.

Shadows cast upon a wall.
Show broken children, no hope at all.
Their shadows cast on walls unknown,
each is alone until full grown.

Shadows cast upon a wall.
Show mother's choice was wrong for all.
Man whose love would not extend,
has love for no one in the end.

Shadows cast upon a wall.
Seems children mean nothing at all.
They grew up in each others dreams.
No mother's love to stop the screams.

Shadows cast upon a wall.
Show children grow in spite of it all.
But only the years have passed away,
still strong is the pain of a child betrayed.

One mother stares upon a wall.
She has no shadow. She has nothing at all.
She lives in Hell, flames touch her face.
She pays the price, lives in disgrace.
...and no one cares. We understand.
She cast her children away for man.