Poems

A Poem For My Dad

My dad is currently in the hospital on the verge of death. Tomorrow is the first day I get to see him since Thanksgiving.

Dad, please don't go.

I don't know what I'd do

If it wasn't for you 

Making me smile and laugh every day.

I'm sorry that I don't speak aloud about

How much you mean to me,

But there's not a single doubt 

That I love you, Dad.

I thought that I was strong,

But I guess that I was wrong

Crying as if my world was almost gone.

It might as well be without you, Dad,

So I suppose I'll say, "So long."

I don't want you to die

Without me by your side

If you even have to die at all.

But I guess I'll just sit

And hug my knees to my chest

With my back against the wall.

I feel like I'm falling 

Down a never-ending pit

With all this stress in my life.

It will only make it harder

Without your stories to make me smile

Through the struggle and the strife.

I wish we could be Timelords,

Regenerating until we're done,

But that will never happen,

So at least we had fun.

I'm glad that you had a good life, Dad,

I wouldn't have it any other way.

And maybe I'm being selfish,

But I really want you to stay.

I don't want you to suffer,

But I don't want you to die.

I don't want you to leave us, Dad,

And I don't want to say goodbye.

Please don't let it be like Papa,

How I was there 

But didn't get a hug goodbye

And the next day he had died.

Please don't let it be like that,

Please don't hurt me more.

With the moving and drama and stress of life,

My heart is already sore.

I thought I could be strong,

But I guess that I was wrong.

I guess that I was wrong...