# Father's Joy # Poem by Marvin Brato Sr

Having six children

isn't easy responsibility

to bear as head of the family

it takes extra effort to make it.



I am not a perfect father

neither is my wife as mother

for we were very young then

we got married; she 18, me 23.



Working hard as medicaltechnologist

i go on night shift every night to be vacant

the next day to work as part time sales agent

all these I have to do to be able to support them.



Poetry is my only consolation

where I can release all the stress

by way of inscribing my sentiments

pooled inside me I need to ease out.



My family is my primary joy

that gives me innate inspiration

and the reason I must do my part

as father to my children and a husband.