Just For A Father Poem by Okoemu Okoemu Okoemu

Just for a father
Who is a driver
Going to and fro the road
Busy or lonely
Bearing and receiving
The insults and humiliations
Of passengers
And off course the men in black
Maintaining a smile and being lovely
Towards them
Albiet him, in sorrow or distress;
Just for family's survival
And when the four legs breaks down,
He, a driver, turns a mechanic,
An electrician
Or a panelbeater
Depending on what show the four legs put up
For children, for wife...
For family, he cares not
That his clothes are torn
Nor rumpled
Nor dirty from lying
On the dust or mud
To fix or repair...
Just for the family's survival
He is anything on the road;
When the sun goes down
And the fourlegs breaks and refused to go on
The road, becomes his bedroom
In the security of forests, he longed for family comfort.

-Okoemu Okoemu Okoemu, Son of Man- S.O.M.