Catastrophic
Abandonment
Empty as I became
Here’s too
NOT KNOWING
A coward flees
A stand up man
WOULD have FULFILLED
His DUTIES
AS A father Vicariously
I sat back
And observed
And that HURT
MORE THEN ANYTHING
Your complete ABSENCE
Was nothing short
Of FATAL
A death WISH
THE lack of
Comprehension
FLUSTERS my moods
Brokenness BITES harder
Some wounds
NEVER heal
As the DUST settles in
A cold shoulder HOVERS
Closing TIME
Always got the BEST of me
Had a dream once
Then it went
Out to PASTURE
I have no idea
Where you might be
Or have ever BEEN
There’s always been
A VOID I couldn’t fill
Transgressions I’ll
Never COMPREHEND
The hurt never
Goes away REGARDLESS
It still hurts as much
As the day before
I GUESS
We will never know
What could have been
Between US
Missing person
Empty photo albums
Dad you FORGOT me
And I wish it hadn’t
GONE that way
Maybe I knew exactly why
I’ve never
Truly RECOVERED
From the lack of
YOUR presence
In my life
Like a ghost without a face
You disappeared
INTO thin AIR
I was to young to truly
UNDERSTAND
Why you might have left
But you’ll never know
Just how badly
THAT HURT ME
You could never pull the
Knife out on that one
I never wanted much
You AND I together
To have you by my SIDE
To hear your voice
Speak those words
PROTECT me
LIKE you should have
That you were PROUD of me
And that you loved me
Just the way I was
Guess you never WANTED
KIDS
Because
I can’t IMAGINE why you
Would just pack up and
RUN AWAY
And leave us all BEHIND
ALL OUR LIFE’S