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Fatherhood is humbling 

It’s like starting your life all over again. Truly

When you arrive at a certain age 

It starts to feel like a blunt 

You’ve taken too many drags out of 

Hours into it, but the real high came seconds into the exercise, the rest only as a result of prolonged habit. 

But fatherhood is humbling because 

It means you’re starting to walk again

Learning to talk

Bending to clean 

Going to school 

Form words and then ideas

Hustling for the bread daily 

Fatherhood is humbling, 

If you’re at the end of your life and suddenly there’s a new start growing in your lover’s stomach then it means that you’re successful 

You can win bread

You can care for a family 

You’re responsible 

You can be called a man

And that is very humbling…