To Make My Father Proud

To make my father proud

To make my mother smile

I need not conquer worlds or fame

Nor set the pace for style

If I can follow through

On what they gave me as my tools

I'll find a way to sail my course

Avoiding ships of fools

If I don't come up, number one

I'll stand out well apart

As one from numbered numbers

For knowing in my heart

I've done all to be done

To always do my best

By listening to me, myself

So he can do the rest

For without compromise, shall flower the fruit of constant care

In my eleventh hour

I'll be a man aware

To face whatever falls my way

Prepared and unashamed

To just be called a part of god

Of which I have been named

A man and woman's elder son

While growing still a child

And that will make my father proud

And make my mother smile