A Poem For Daddy

A life gone so soon;

A life that was well lived;

A life well missed;

Another life gone to cancer;

And there's nothing anyone could have done;

There was nothing left to do,

But sit there and watch as he took his last breath;

There was nothing left to do,

But say our good byes;

There was nothing left to do,

But cry.



My father was only 42,

He had everything to live for;

He had a wife;

That would never leave him;

He had a daughter;

That would do anything for him;

He had two sons;

That need some life lessons yet,

He left us all too soon,

Where will we go from here?



When I found out he wasn't gonna survive another week,

I cried my eyes out;

Two days and then another day;

I asked why,

But no one knew;

I realized he wasn't gonna walk into that front door;

And hug and kiss me again,

That he wasn't gonna pull into that driveway,

And he wasn't gonna be on that couch;

He wasn't gonna be around anymore;

And thats what made me sad.



All my life I've been a "Daddy's Girl";

Now what's left for me to be?

There's always gonna be this giant hole in my heart,

And there's nothing I can do.



I hope that one day it'll come to me;

In a dream or in a thought,

And I'll smile and walk out the door;

I'll walk into the world;

And I wont come back;

Because my life will have changed.



Now there's nothing left for me to say;

So I'm gonna leave it at these three words,

The words that should be said, if only, true,

I LOVE YOU.