Fatherhood

In honor of Father’s Day, Alamo City Moms Blog is bringing you a series of posts written by local dads about topics related to fatherhood. 

“Fatherhood”

For Kierian and Luca

 

Being your father is a book

I am reading as I write,

Accepting or replacing

The words as I go, words

Written by my father, mentors,

Mothers who fathered me

And The Father.

It calls for my best thinking

And feeling and, yet,

I sometimes have

To repeatedly return

To work a passage until

It is good enough, I hope.

It is the most important

Book I have ever held

Because as I am fathering you,

I am also fathering myself

In ways I would have wished.

Because of this I am patient,

More often than not, when

Assembling a red wagon,

Or first swing set,

Or breakfast conversation,

Especially in those moments

When I know we are talking

More through our eyes

Than words because, you see,

The book is written

In the air between us,

In our collective memory

It will be yours

To rewrite someday.

Write it better than I did

So you can better love

Your children

Who are counting on us

To be true

To our words.

photo (3)Santiago is a San Antonio native. He has been involved in many modes of creativity over the years including poetry, visual art, and photography. His professional experience includes public policy, community and economic development, and healthcare administration involving federal grants management. He is a proud father to Luca and Kierian, and husband to Heather, ACMB Community Events Specialist.

 

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