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Listmates, for the past couple of weeks I have been watching my mother cry because she can't find her daddy. It is hard to take, even though at the same time I am glad that she can't remember what kind of monster he really was. But I think that this poem says what I've been going through. |
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Daddy?
Daddy, where are you? Why aren't you here? Her voice is anxious, her eyes filled with fear. Mama, where's Daddy? I want to know. Where is my daddy? Where did he go? She's a lost little girl, and she seems so alone. In a sad soft voice, she sits here and moans. I watch with a pain that grabs at my heart, Being a caregiver sometimes tears me apart. Mama, your daddy has gone far away. I'm sure you will see him one of these days. How can I tell her that her father is dead? She would not understand a thing that I said. The world that she's in, is one without hope. And I often wonder, how can she cope? Her memory's tortured, her voice filled with pain. She asks for her daddy again and again. There's naught I can do for this mother I love. I ask for His grace and strength from above. She ask once again, her face streaked with tears, Daddy, where are you? Why aren't you here? © 1999, Jerry Ham e-mail: Jerry.Ham@werner-saumweber.de
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