The man with the voice, the rage, the stick <br />The boy under his roof, the child, the innocent <br /> <br />The man with a vision, a family, a job <br />The boy caught under his spell, his misgivings, his misery <br /> <br />From drops to barrels, from rags to riches... the man became <br />Socially withdrawn and forgotten; ... the boy became <br /> <br />Slowly from boys to men; the metamorphosis of rage <br />Slow to anger he writes of the man he remembers... <br /> <br />'The rot began a long time ago <br />Slowly tearing the fiber out of his heart <br />Till it was left hollow on the inside <br />So that his deeds poured forth with worms <br />And irked living dignity' <br /> <br />He too, the boy, have become: mean, damaging and discontent <br />His father, the man, has also just died old and bitter <br /> <br />Not a second now to reconcile with the man <br />In fury and rage he writes: <br /> <br />'Deep within the disgust brews <br />Lemon or lime nothing can change this bitter news' <br /> <br />Leaving in memory for his boy this convo with his father: <br /> <br />'Shame you... you have shamed me' <br /> <br />From the mountain top, the boy reflects upon his father’s ways <br />Upon a painting of family he'd carried always and notes: <br /> <br /> <br />'The canvass hides something of what I see <br />Of a romantic painting, null and void <br />The voice of the boy, fine as day <br />Yet his occasion is folly and foul' <br /> <br />'How could you have treated one of yours this way? ' <br /> <br />Speaking out loud, he cries his reconciliation in a final verse <br /> <br />'I forgive you father! '<br /><br />David Beckham<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-man-and-his-boy/
