Where Art Thou? Akeem Hobson © 2020
This is a story
which does not begin with a
“Once upon a time”
It’s a little boy
of a darker complexion
who grew up screwed up
Now cues the female
A motherly figure walks
in calling her son
“Son, can you come here?
We need to talk about you
skipping school today.”
She continues on
to say: “your teachers told me
your grades are slipping.”
“You’re dipping into
so much trouble it is
disappointing me.”
“Not to mention the
fact that you are on the verge
of being expelled.”
“What’s the matter, son?”
And as the son begins to
look at his mother,
tears pour from his eyes
like a collapsed water pipe
inside a storm drain.
He replies to her,
“Mother, the kids have bullied
me much everyday.”
“To my dismay, I’m
taunted as a buffoon is
for entertainment.”
The mother asked “Why?”
The son says “because I do
not have a father.”
He looks to her and
says, “Where is my father at?”
She now starts to sigh.
But calmly she tells
him, “Your father abandoned
us when you were born.”
He then asked her “Why?”
She said “because your father
was not ready yet.”
“Ready for what?, he
replied. And the mother said,
“Ready for your birth.”
She explained further,
“He was afraid to raise you
because of his past.”
The son asks, “What past?”
She replies, “that his dad left
him when he was born.”
The son then asked mom,
“Did he say that he loved me
before I was born?”
Mother responded,
“Yes, he said he loved you while
you were in my womb.”
“That was the time that
your father was happy, but
left after your birth.”
And as her son nods,
His head turns to the ceiling
and he speaks to God.
The son says to God:
“Lord, where art thou my father?
I pray he is safe.”
“Please hear my prayer
I pray that he is alive,
so I could meet him.”
“I also pray Lord
that he will remember me
as I am growing.”
“For mother and he
to work all of their problems
and love each other.”
“And finally Lord,
I pray that he will return
and unite with us.”
“We will forgive him,
We can be a family
again, forever.”
Mom and son embrace
with a hug and say, “Amen”
Now the story ends.
“...children from fatherless homes are
more likely to be poor, become involved in
drug and alcohol abuse, drop out of school,
and suffer from health and emotional problems.
Boys are more likely to become involved in crime,
and girls are more likely to become pregnant as teens.”
(fathers.com)