My Brother

My brother...
My brother who's not from my mother but, He's still my brother!
My brother whose mother knows my mother,
My brother whose mother I call mother; but though my blood he's not... he's still my brother!
I wonder, why? With your child you don't bother...
Why my brother... you bother with others seeds yet your seed is all alone my brother...
Why you let the mother play both roles
Role playing daddy and mummy while you don't bother? My brother... She's mother and father to your seed... My brother!
His mother the boy sees as amazing mother - supermum with an M on her chest while 

You're outchea finessing, pulling down another dress, look at this mess, but
You my brother, are hardly around to matter you muthafu......!
Yet to you it doesn't matter because his mother does her dues
Oh why you won't bother with the young dude my brother?
Trust me my brother, your time is over due
And the spirit of the boy it bothers if only you could see my brother!
But my brother,
You surround yourself with bother that blinds you,
And, further binds you my brother as
You bother more with the needs of others, Than being a father! My brother...
Laughter...
You cackle as you hustle and haggle with these others to further (your)
Plight my brother; but you miss what's right as a father should do
My brother...
Your mother taught you better I am sure
My brother...
Even your father before you, he went further... did further
My brother... Than you do now as a father; oh how it bothers me
My brother...
My brother...
My brother...
Pray the boy grows up to be a better father than his father and grandfather
My brother, I pray he furthers your name better than his father did
My brother...

Kevin Mutembei
March 2015