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A father’s advice to his daughter

Portrait of Tracy and Steve Geis (www.jaars.org)JIMMY DREKORE

An entry in the Crocodile Prize
Kina Securities Award for Poetry

Don’t do
what adults do
you ain’t one yet
or you’ll regret

Don’t waste time chatting
Keep those legs walking

Fall in love with a book
Not with a look

Be wary of your friends
Not all are good friends

Why is this world
Called a man’s world?

Coz they aim for what they want to achieve
Girls aim for whom they want to achieve

Do you wanna be
Who you wanna be?

Don’t do
what adults do
you ain’t one yet
or you’ll regret

Don’t be a mother on the way
You’ll climb the hard way

What is pain?
Your child crying in the rain

Your tears rolling
And the rain tumbling

Down on you
We won’t be there for you

In his small eyes
Innocence cries

Whose pain?
Your pain!

Darling, avoid the pain

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Marlene Potoura

Jimmy, I love your poems. simple but with a message..alluring & captivating.

Philip G Kaupa

I love this one, wow! Powerful for a pretty girl...

Peter Kranz

Great one Jimmy. But on the other hand - to quote good ole WW - the Child is Father to the Man (equally Daughter to the Woman).

Robin Lillicrapp

A timely reminder of an age-old calamity. Now you have it in print, may its message echo through the eyes of many readers.

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