Like Father, Like Son! ! ! Poem by Compton Wright

Hello Dad or do I call you Compton Wright Sr. as you’re never here
To be called Daddy or father as you are a ghost in this house
As my brother and I had to go through Manhood with our mother
But we were lucky that we had a real man like our grandfather as
He used to tell us several stories about to never run but stand in bravely
But never to be a coward who can’t take care of his responsibilities
As to be a man is to be the rock of your family or to achieve your goals
As you never done any of your goals as you are a born failure from your
Mother’s womb but from your phone calls you tell me to be just like you

But you’re abomination in my eyes so I made a promise that to never to
Become like you but to be the opposite of what you made yourself as
These years you struggle to live comfortably but all you have to do is
To get your life together as it was a time that I looked up to you when
I was a little kid as you were my hero when you fix our power when we
Have blackouts and power failures but now the only blackouts I have are
My stress and frustrations I have when I look into the mirror and see you
As you’re in my blood, in my facial appearance and in my timeline….

I wish I can love you and have a father-son relationship but you don’t
Want to have any kind of personal contact with your first born son as
You always say that when you are proud of my accomplishments and
My achievements with my poetry and my school work but yet I don’t
Feel any pride or any encouragement to support your efforts to helping
Yourself out of your bottomless pit of drugs, alcohol and your street
Roaming it’s as if the streets calls your name as you would lie in my face
And tell you’re coming back for some candy for your boys…you disappear

As we are total opposites but one thing is the same and that’s our names
From your anger and hatred you have in your Jamaican blood…I been passed
Down to have the same temper as we are brutes and savages when pushed too far
As I only wished that I can change you Dad but not as a human being but a father
As I want to be Like Father, Like Son……….