A DAD, A FATHER AND A MAN

Whenever I looked at my father,
You know what I saw?
I saw a dad.
I insist I saw
I wasn't told, you know.
He was a father in a man.
Further into being a father,
He was a dad.
In the outer world,
A man, he was
But in my world
A dad, a father and a man -
A true one.
At least in my childhood eyes.

C.N. Leakey.