Dear Father

This was a poem I had written a long time ago. Managed to dig it up somehow. A humble request though. Don't try reading too much into it. I love my father very much... more than life itself.
Right... now that the senti stuff is out of the way.. make way for... umm.. well more senti stuff. Happy reading!


Dear Father, forgive me for I am not your perfect son,
Forgive me for not being the person you hoped I’d become,
As the days pass by and you watch me grow
Into a person you might never claim to know,
You ask yourself... “Where? Where did I go wrong?”
The answer dear father lies in the words of this song

Ask not what you did, but what you did not do...
Ask none but yourself, the reason is you!
Dear father, forgive me... but your dreams are not mine
I’m not the person you were back in 1979
I tried to make you happy, but you turned the other cheek
Your dreams are not a reflection of the path I choose to seek
And I accept this, dear father. Believe me, I do.
I guess I can never grow up to become someone like you

I loved you, dear father, from the day you first held my hand
Till the winds of change blew away every grain of sand
And now time ceases to flow as we gently drift apart,
There is nothing that can mend this son’s broken heart
I bleed as I write this... dear father, I bleed!
I cry dear father... but you pay no heed,
I shout one last time, but my voice remains unheard
Dear father, forgive me for these are my last words..............