This is to my dad.


DADDY'S GONE

DADDY'S GONE

This goes out to my daddy
He's gone
I hope he knows I love him madly
And every time this is read
It's his song and I'll sing it gladly

A tough man he was
He could bare way more than I can
A best friend
And my biggest fan
There will never be again
Because he was the greatest man

Lately I've been playing life like a game
If he could speak to me right now
He would say
I wasn't holding down the name
But the way he would put it
Wouldn't be so thick
He would reassure me
Not to give up so quick

And I'd look through the gleam
Between those two blue eyes
And see disappointment but love
For he wouldn't want,
Nor let me fail from above

Because the potential of his son
Is a lot more than others
But setting myself up for failure
Often I am smothered
So deep,
Deeper than the pacific at times
Even ask his brothers
The family worries for a reason
And for that part ask his mother

I've learned a lot in my journey down
And it's almost to a halt
So I apologize to those who care
It was entirely my fault
People always asked me
What was wrong?
I blamed it on everything else
Daddy's gone
Imagine that
It's hard sometimes
To realize as a fact




Poetry by Bian Mrphy
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Written on 2006-05-23 at 14:52

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