The Love of a Father

Tainted words Attempting to create a bleak truth of you But my memory stays pure Nothing they say Can penetrate How I remember The way you took care of me Treated me older than I was Gave me a childhood beyond the dysfunction They say, You were crude and a cheater But even though it may be true, I know there’s another side of you It wasn’t the cancer speaking But you knew what to do Gave me everything I needed and more. Too young to realize Too late to see Deeper than what went wrong Deeper than the surface of the pain Beyond the dysfunction of struggling There was you teaching Your daughter how to be the woman she is know Even beyond death In God’s hands now I know you’re safe Watching over me