Thursday, June 13, 2019

I WONDER written by Sheldon Manoo (2000)


My son turned two today
And as I kissed him happy birthday
I felt like the child that he is
And then I tucked him to sleep later that evening
And as I watched at him and my wife sleeping
My mind went a drifting

            I wonder, Is he gonna be like me?
            Is he gonna be better or worst?
            I wonder if I’d turn like my daddy
            And change this blessing to a curse?
             Cause sometimes it’s hard to make ends meet
             With all the demands of society
             Would I sacrifice all the things he may say he need
             Or spend more quality family time,
             And never make enough money,
             To buy all of our dreams?

Oh would he understand this life?
I just want to protect him from all the evils
I want to be around to guide him to be a man to respect and care for the community
For women, the environment and be a role model to society
I want to stand beside him on his wedding day
And hope that I won’t have much to say
Cause of the bond we’d keep all our lives through!
           
I wonder, Is he gonna be like me?
            Is he gonna be better or worst?
            I wonder if I’d turn like my daddy
            And change this blessing to a curse?
             Cause sometimes it’s hard to make ends meet
             With all the demands of society
             Would I sacrifice all the things he may say he need
             Or spend more quality family time,
             And never make enough money,
             To buy all of our dreams?

I clasp my hands now to say a prayer
That if I die before he knows himself completely
That the same God that has been there for my conscious molding
Would you promise that You’d be there for him?
And my wife that I love with all my soul
The one who makes sense of this varying world.
  I wonder if the life I live inside my mind
  Would be the life that this reality find
  I wonder if throughout all the trials of change
  And the values of the next generation
  Will I be wise enough to re-arrange
  I wonder if I’d make the adaptation!



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