Hello
And happy birthday
Dad.
Wish
I could be
Sharing this
In person
With you.
And not
To your departed
Soul.
Who left us
Almost 16 years ago
On a November night.
Much has change
In the family
Since.
Not all
For the better.
A wall of silence
And distance
Has been built
To stop
The hurting
I have endured.
How I miss
Your protective presence
In my life.
In making
The biggest things
Appear small
And totally bearable.
In vanishing
Those ghosts
And daemons
That haunted me.
Pardon me
As your eldest daughter.
(Yes
Your eldest daughter
And not son).
Wipes away
A tear or two
From her eyes
Dad.
Wishing you
The warmest thoughts
On the anniversary
Of your birth date.
Therisa © 2016
Author's note: Today, would have been my dad's 80th birthday, if he hadn't die, on November 15, 1998, from a fatal heart attack, on November 13th. A day doesn't go by, which I find myself, missing his presence, in my life.
