“Overcoming Annual Adversity”
Honoring anniversaries
Can harbor annual adversity.
It’s hard to plan them with certainty year after year.
As a new husband, I realize the challenges
That arise daily on the horizon’s balances…
Many men both wise and talented take their wives for granted
– no matter how near and dear.
With my new wife, I understand better
How life can plunder plans of pleasure.
Though your son’s a man of measure – I’ve come up short, too.
Though nothing comes above or aside
The love we have for our wives…
It’s not enough to have them in mind – we’ve got to resort to moves.
So though in the past I’ve criticized you,
I now at last can empathize with you.
It’s a difficult task to give our wives their dues –
both are women of rare make and model.
Both were beautiful brides
As seen through the view of our eyes…
Our duties defined are truly designed to spare them aches and sorrows.
Such distinction when left unrecognized
Leaves a husband’s kingdom un-rectified.
It’s a testimony left un-testified – true blessings are reveled daily.
When what she once called being ‘courted’
Succumbs to a stall that’s been aborted…
The spark gets shorted and morbid as the devil rejoices gaily.
No matter how noble, no man is without fallacy.
Life will run us over as we’re walking casually.
But our wives shouldn’t suffer the casualty – they deserve better.
If nothing on this world’s more important than her,
Then how in the world are we ignoring her?!!…
There’s no reason for us to be boring her if her worth is treasured!
We can’t wait once a year to renew our faith and vows.
Tomorrow’s not guaranteed – we’ve got to proclaim it now!
Love means more than saying it proud – it’s meant to be shown and proved!
Ingenuity and spontaneity
Should be tuned in our hearts so blatantly
That they congruently ought to stay in key to the tone of their grooves!
“The Pattern-ity Test”
a.k.a.
“Copying Kee Patterns”
When it comes to this happiest time of the year,
My son status blinds from the rear:
Past times where I shined my rear – showing brash
assonance as only a teen could.
Copying your pronounced Kee pattern wasn’t in my lexicon.
Locking you out was the key plaster I put pressure on…
Yet even this bore a Kee master with evidence drawn
to a spirit redeemed for good.
You see, to initially reject what you had to offer
Reflects what you had with your father.
Mom and Devonna saw our closely drawn personas prior
to this piece being written.
They observed the bitter banter
Of our absurd and bickering chatter…
And saw the child in the father bothered by the father in the child
before I could believe and admit it!
As such, I don’t need a carton of blood drawn
To prove our father and son bond.
I’ve come along – I’ve peeped your fatherly blessing
through the ‘Kee whole.’
Though there was a time when it was presented
That I did resist and resent it…
I now write sentences to redeem the exquisiteness
viewed within a keen mold.
Your paternity could never be a curse to me.
But there is a worse degree that occurs to me –
I’m concerned that you see only my shortcomings
patterned after your faults.
While there are unresolved flaws I need to work out
That once accosted and bogged your worth’s clout…
I reserve no doubt that my unlocked potential gathered
matter from your vaults.
Rather, copying your Master Kee patterns
Unlocked my stature’s esteemed grandeur.
Thus, I’m copying the Master’s master Kee pattern custom-fit for me.
The Lord cut and crafted you with purpose and vision
To break through doors and cuffs that once shackled
your person within them…
I’m your version re-visioned – fit to pick and Pop-lock
with substance that clicks on-‘Kee.’
‘You ask: “Why is not the son charged with the guilt of his father?” Because the son has done what is right and just, and has been careful to observe all My statutes, he shall surely live. Only the one who sins shall die. The son shall not be charged with the guilt of the father, nor shall the father be charged with the guilt of his son. The virtuous (righteous) man’s virtue (righteousness) shall be his own, as the wicked man’s wickedness shall be his own.’
– Ezekiel 18:19-20 (Catholic canon, emphasis added)
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‘Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do : for what things soever he doeth , these also doeth the Son likewise.’
– John 5:19
