Fathers Day 6-18-06

Fathers Day
6-18-06

I should have a corny card for you

And a tie, a shirt, or some other gift you have no use for.

But you would smile graciously and tell me you love it anyway.

Like you’ve done so many years before.

Instead, I’m going to visit you, at the cemetery.

And I will only have my memories and my tears.

Its been a little over four months

But the hole in my heart hasn’t gotten any smaller.

Ever since you first got sick

I just feel as though everything has fallen apart.

Nothing has been quite right

And every time I allow myself to be hopeful that things are getting better

I am faced with another challenge.

Your spirit and your love has been what’s been pulling me through

But on days like today, its so hard here without you.

I just want to be able to sit on the couch with you, watch the Red Sox

And have you tell me its going to be ok.

By the way, they won today, and the Yankees lost.

Every time that happens I smile and think of you.

And that silly grin that would spread across your face

When you would say, “maybe this year.”

I guess the little things like that

Are your father’s day gift to me.

Thank you daddy, I hope you know

a day will never pass without you being on my mind or in my heart.