Dear Dad

Dear Dad It wasn’t supposed to be this way I was supposed to hug you one more time Be able to look at you face so long it was memorized I should have been able to have your arms wrapped around me You telling me you love me and I would never hurt Me believing you and hugging you just a little tighter Holding your cologne in my nose just a little longer Remembering what it was like to be a little girl Protected from the world in the arms of her Daddy But that is how it should’ve been That’s not how it is You’re gone Forever gone That gone you can never come back from Now a piece of my heart is missing And that piece is you But should I really hurt so bad? I never even got to memorize your laugh Have it echo in my ears And wrap me in its love I never got to see your smile Have it mesmerize me And compete with the sun I never got to see you again Like we had always planned But from what I’ve heard you were a great man A man that gave with all his heart Even if it was to those without the best intentions Always thinking of others Never really yourself And for that I’m thankful Because I’ half of you Half of someone oh so great You just have to be in a better place Mom says you’re in a better place But I’m selfish So I still miss you