Not much of the religious type
I still feel moved to pray
For every baby’s mama
wanting baby’s daddy to stay

Baby boy is crying but
Mama’s embrace isn’t enough to stop it
For in her heart she’s crying too
for the man who broke it, dropped it

For some profound reasoning
his mama’s love no more enough
What so simple in her past life gone by
suddenly seems so rough

Crying, “We should be together!
Our baby boy deserves better!”
But she sees in his devious eyes
words off his tongue a tangle of lies

when left alone

A lonely heartache
no family make

A fatherless son
the hope undone

A loveless wake
the bonds do break

Sparing tears of devastation choked back
in her throat to smile at her beautiful son
When all the while she’s dying inside
From what his father has done

I pray for these women, these sons
these friends strayed and askew
For their experience forms resemblance
of what a man has put me through