Responsibility to our children

Tis said we choose our parents

that assumption provides those

with perhaps an extra dimension

some instinctive purpose that throws

a spanner into all of this

when we see what some then do

teach  the innocent angels

to be devils thats my view

Watching fathers training

their children to become

hunters in the forests

or bull fighters

every crumb

of imagination

spread upon their soul

subjecting their emotion

to parental control

as soon as they can toddle

giving them the way

for all to be a matador

or a hunter who would prey

on the earthling of another species

who shares Mother Earth

subject them to a washing of their brains

building their worth

training them by showing them

the killing and the rest

rubbing their noses in it all

making them sit the test

making them fight a real soul

making them try to kill

this our responsibility

to create the thrill

I ask them where are the women

shut out of the affray

patriachal presence

every single day

an irregular appraisal

a torment causing strife

children demand better

I mean it is their life

an ordeal of unpleasantness

where tenderness  is lost

a purgatorial vista

that certainly must cost

a regretfulness to come to be

remorse I have to say

walking in dad’s footsteps

is not the only way

culture and tradition

rooted in the past

might be seen as

a tragedy

thats moving far too fast