We Win Dad

Posted Apr 10, 10:51 AM by Kay Camenisch

I don’t know when I have been as deeply touched by a poem as I was by “We Win Dad.” Dorsee Savage wrote it, and I was privileged to hear it on March 30, 2010 at the Out4Life conference, sponsored by Prison Fellowship Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia. Dorsee has turned his life around and his message is powerful.

We Win Dad
By Dorsee Savage

We win dad, You win through me.
For I am the man you knew you could be.
Although you don’t know me, I remain your son.
The cells and the souls we carry are one
There were times I resented you, Why didn’t you stay? Didn’t you love me? Then why did you stray?
But when I became a man I must honestly say
There were times when I too wanted to just run away
But part of you stayed and could not run
And though it was rough,
He has overcome.
So we win dad,
You win through me. For I am the man you knew you could be.
This is not to discredit you
No attempt to defame
For I carry your DNA in my vein.
I too know the paradox created by lust
Being made in god’s image,
Yet formed from the dust.
But God knows the future,
So dad could it be, that many of the prayers you prayed
Were answered in me?
Maybe you just passed the torch,
Or handed the baton,
Or tagged my hand as I entered the ring and fought on,
And wrestled the adversities of true fatherhood
The fear of commitment,
Opposed to just laying wood.
See I battled these with you from inside of your loins
Through pain and through gain we’re immortally joined.
So we win dad
You win through me
Think of it as a second round victory
Your dream lives on, your legacy stands
The child you created has grown to a man.
And though he’s unique
In his own special way.
He’s reminiscent of you
From what his momma say.
That means you are a winner
Whether you knew it or not
And your soul has wings
Whether you flew it or not.
See god made you a king
Whether you blew it or not
And you can still overcome Whether you do it or not.
But I take no credit for being who I am.
It was our own heavenly father through the blood of the lamb
Who taught me the power of the man he’s designed
Whom he has created
And he has defined.
And when my life’s at its summit for this I pray
That I may look into my child’s eyes and say
We win child I win through you
For you do the things that I dreamed to do.
Like God giving the temples blueprint to King David
Yet giving his son Solomon, the wisdom to raise it.
As I build the house may you make it a home
As I construct the castle
May you sit on the throne
May you take my experiences my joys and my pain
May they teach you and give you the wisdom to reign
If these things I’m able to say in the end
Then our labor’s not in vain
We win dad
We win.