Diamonds Are Fine
Sometimes I feel like a fatherless child
Sometimes I feel like a fatherless child
Sometimes I feel like a fatherless child
A long way from home
These women bother me very much
Attempting to clutch a man’s constitution with his fruit
Manipulate him with his seed
These women bother me
Call his phone hollering about where you seen him
What you seen him doing
You was six months pregnant the last time you screwed him
Now your babies turning 2 and you still blue and boohooing
And boo boo I wonder why it doesn’t bother you
To abuse the bond between father and child
as you gin with a smile masking the lasting scars of your father being absent
when you never wanted that to happen to your baby
But lately if he don’t show up when you like
If he aint all up and through your life
Or if he just can’t see you as his wife
Then naw he can’t be involved
Naw he can’tdo his job
And you don’t want shit but a child support check
Just like the rest of your woes is me cronies
Absentee baby daddy having homies
Once a month posted up at the currency exchange
Pushing double wide strollers down them narrow ass lanes
Cashing half of what you used to have when he had it to give of his own free will
Yes mama you do look as dumb as you must feel
So saddled with baggage you dragging to chat up the gaggle of madams
So used to living alone that misery instantly follows them wherever they rome
But naw they not bitter
They aren’t lonely
Your baby daddy though
He’s only trying to rise to an occasion
Requesting your respect not a standing ovation
for doing the job he knows he’s supposed to
And he don’t need your touching your licking or your cookies
Your big piece of chicken or your cookies but obviously you’ve got him confused
Thinking that the line next to yours on the birth certificate
Means that he doesn’t have to give a shit
But when he does
When he goes beyond and above the call of duty and everyone around you is well approving
Of the love and affection he provides his children
You turn from mama to villain
Peeling them out of daddy’s arm
When to be an affectionate father is all he wants
That and to be treated like a man
But miss lady you are forcing his hand
And there’s only so many sides that this dice can land
So what if
The next time you trip
Allow foul nomenclature to slip from your lips
Is the last time he comes to the crib
Last time he picks up them kids
Now it don’t matter no more whose fault It is
The damage has been did
The rift has begun separating fathers from daughters and sons
And those children arethe ones who suffer
Them babies could careless if yall are lovers
if they can’t have their father their mother
and whatever extra loving you can provide
Them babies could give a good goddamn if your re husband and wife
If they can’t have their dad when they want when they desire on the fly
Or on second and fourth Saturday through Sunday morning preaching
Its his weekend to visit
You aint picking up the phone you ain’t calling you aint showing up
But quick to need this mans assistance when the baby is sick can’t sleep or throwing up
You lucky he aint going up side your head
You lucky you ain’t end up dead
Cause if the tables was turned you would kill for your kids
Blood would spill for your kids
So why not feel for your kids and for the idea of him standing for his
When so many are sitting on their responsibility
Cast off your concern of how he aint feeling me and
Saturate you self in showering love to these little buds open in trust
Your gems are robust gaze in their faces
Look in their eyes, give them the time
They make diamonds of dime pieces and petty thieves
Of club feels and high heels
Of stolen glances and fleeting romances till right after your prom dance ends
This chance is for you two to give the best you have
To the life God has granted you to care for
So why not share more of your life with these priceless jewels
You may not be the wife but he values you just as valiantly
Most high entrusted you to raise the family
So don’t stress the in between
Take the blessings you receive
Stop the vexing over rings
and you’ll find that your former pining left you mining the whole time
So let their brilliance add resilience you got the bling baby
Watch them shine
No you may not wear the rings mama
but his diamonds should do you fine