Summary of poem by Ed O.G.

In Ed O.G’s, Be a father to your child, the author is giving directions of what men who have children and are not actively participating in their children’s life what steps they should take to not just have a child but be a good father that their children can depend upon. The poem, y Ed O.G. describes his frustration that he has toward men who are not taking an active role in the lives of the children that they fathered. He discussed different stereotypical things that men do to justify why they are not involved in their children’s lives and the author tells the reader how negative these actions are and how they can be detrimental to the children’s lives in the long run. The poem not only discusses how negatively the author feels towards men who do not uphold their responsibilities as fathers but it also encourages them to correct what negative things have happened in the past and is a father to their child.
At the beginning of the poem the author is telling the men who h...