Celebrate Them Both

 

 

 

Mothers are precious

But so are fathers too,

Without either one of them

There’d be no you.

 

Two in matrimony

Came together as one

And from this amalgamation

You and I were born.

 

 

Mother and Father:

That exact two!

No day should separate them

And neither should you.

 

Seating mothers together

On Mothers’ Day

Should be done away with

Without delay.

 

Similarly for fathers

When Fathers’ Day comes,

Separating out the fathers

Should be shunned.

 

Mothers’ Day is every day

And Fathers’ Day too,

Anything you can do for them

Just do.

 

 

Make no distinctions,

Treat them both alike,

Leave out the favouritism,

It’s just not right.

 

Happy Mothers’ Day

And Fathers’ Day too!

Make Parents’ Day every day

And to both be true.

 

Stewart Russell © May 10, 2025

 

Happy Mother's Day!

 

To fathers and mothers

And to their children too,

I guess by now that you know

This means to both me and you.

If you are not a mother or father

You must be a child

And if you are an orphan like me,

Both parents would have died.

It is my first Mother’s Day

Since my mother has left

She had had enough of me

And so, she took her rest.

 

I miss her like crazy

And I miss my father also

But thank God they didn’t go together

But, I guess you know.

An old man once told me

There are two reasons for everything,

At the time he was ninety-three

And in my head, this still rings.

One was primary

While the other was secondary

And when we mix up the two reasons

It’s a recipe for misery.

He said for example:

We should eat to live,

Not the other way around

Which is living to eat.

The primary reason for food

He said, is nutrition,

Pleasure is the secondary reason

And we must not change its position.

When we do, it causes trouble:

Like heart attacks and strokes

And I dare say to you, my friend,

Not only with the older folks.

Back to Mother's day, however,

For its two main reasons,

Listen carefully, I admonish,

Particularly at this season.

The primary reason for Mother's Day

Is about the family,

The secondary reason is about mothers,

I trust you agree.

Let’s change them back

Since I think we have them wrong

And cause family to grow

For it needs to be made strong.

Mother's Day and Father's Day

Must be about family

And so, as we celebrate Mother's Day

Please spare a thought for me.

Happy Mother's Day to everyone

To mothers and fathers and children too.

A shout-out to family in a gigantic way,

Be happy everyone on this wonderful day!

Stewart Russell © May 2020

Family First Revisited

 

 

As you read this poem

On this Fathers’ Day

Please do not be offended

In any kind of way.

I merely want to look

At how fathers came to be,

Through mothers was the way

Both you and I can see.

Let’s cease to separate them

On any given day,

They’re to thrive through one another

This is God’s special way.

So Fathers’ Day or Mothers’

They’re both to be celebrated

And so today on Fathers’ Day

Both should be commemorated.

And as we do so today

Let’s do so impartially,

On this special day today

Let’s celebrate them equally.

And as we do I remind you

It’s really about the family,

It’s family we are celebrating

Let’s do so thankfully.

Big up fathers! Big up mothers!

Big up family too!

And every opportunity you get

Propagate this view.

I remind us of the times

That we are living in,

Any redefinition of the family

Must be viewed as sin.

A father can’t be a mother

And a mother can’t be a father,

God instituted marriage

And this cannot be altered.
  

Let’s not confuse our children

With these conflicting roles,

Be like magnets that attract

They still use opposite poles.

Two north poles repel

Together they never cleave,

A man is to cleave to his wife

After his mother he leaves.

Through this simple process

Children come about,

Any other cohabitation

Will throw the family out.

They can cohabit all they like

Two fathers or two mothers

But after their ecstatic conclusion

They won’t produce another. 

If we want to depopulate

This is a sure way to go

But that is certainly not God’s idea

Let us not go with that flow.

Let us arrest the deterioration 

And put back family first:

Each one in his or her rightful role

And avoid this societal curse.

The rainbow depicted love

God’s love for the human race,

It was to Noah and his extended family

That God imparted His grace.

Let us all be militant

As we observe the oncoming foe,

Let’s reinforce our family ties

And resist the same sex flow.

Happy Fathers’ Day to all

Let the nuclear family thrive,

Same sex marriage is a misnomer

And really shouldn’t survive.

So on this Fathers’ Day

I will again trumpet the call

And like I did on Mothers’ Day

It’s Happy Fathers’ Day to all.

Happy Fathers’ Day to fathers

And to every mother too

And remember this is about family

And family is the biblical view.

Stewart Russell © June 2018

Family First

 

As you read this poem this Mothers’ Day

Please do not be offended,

I would never put mothers down

So that’s not what I intended.

I implore us now to look again

At how mothers came to be,

Our focus especially on such days

Should be on the family.

I speak not only of Mothers’ Day

But Fathers’ Day as well,

Without one the other could not be

So it’s time we make them gel.

How wonderful it would be

If both these days families sit together

And as we celebrate the family

That would be so much better.

Of course in such a context

We could still single out the mothers

And when Fathers’ day comes around

Again we’d bring the family together.

When we make mothers sit together

And then proceed to celebrate

We could easily send a wrong signal

That says it’s all right to discriminate.

Big up fathers and big up mothers

And big up the entire family too,

With every opportunity that we get

We should propagate this view.

We live in interesting times

Where the family is being redefined

And the schools our children attend

Put strange things in their minds.

“A father can be a mother

And a mother can be a father

And two of the same can live together

And that should not be a bother.”

  

But this could never be right

For the children would be confused

So by celebrating the authentic family

This notion can be diffused.

Through the procreation process

Fathers and mothers came about

So the encouragement of two of the same

Throws the family out.

They can cohabit all they like

I mean two fathers or two mothers

But at the end of their fervent trip

They wouldn’t produce another.

They need one another

The Creator designed it this way

And if ever two of the same produce a child

I tell you that would be the day.

Church, it’s time to set the trend

Put family first on both these days,

Celebrate fathers and mothers and children too

For this is the family way.

To put one up is to put one down

Big them up together,

It’ll take some gumption to move this way

But that’s the nature of trendsetters.

By our practice we’ve given ground

To some questionable ideas

And by our limp and token response

We’ve allowed some to have their way.

We need to arrest the deterioration

And put back the family first,

Fathers and mothers in their rightful place

Or for our society, “It’s goodnight nurse”.

So on this Mothers’ Day

I am trumpeting a clarion call

Let Mothers’ Day be Family Day

And so too Fathers’ Day and all.

The time has come to be militant

Notice the approach of the foe,

Strengthen the family ties that remain

Come on families let’s go!

Let every day be family day

Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day too

And raise our children as God demands

And perpetuate the biblical view.

Stewart Russell © May 2018