Reflections

Reflections

Memories of younger years
Some sweet some bitter tears
The perilous shelter that once was my home
I only recall when expressing in poem
The landing window that once I did gaze
Flashes of my childhood that is now just a haze

I saw you suffer
Both equally wrong
With nothing solid keeping you strong
We were not enough
I wished you apart
And then your life could have a fresh start

I never wanted to leave you then
But I was too young to bind
And years before you passed away
You eased my conscious mind

You stayed there for us: I know all that now
If you could have escaped you would have somehow

But just as you left us
She hushed us away
And I never got to tell you
The things I had to say

I love you more than ever
And I know you know that's true
Despite what we together
Did suffer and go through

Thinking of you each moment of each day Dad