Dad, Its been 13 years now
13 years since you last laughed
13 years since your last tears
13 years since I last saw you
13 years since you last held me close
13 years since you last said I love you
13 years might seem like a long time
but to me it feels like just yesterday
It feels like just yesterday I was wondering when my daddy would come home
It feels like just yesterday that I realized that you never would
13 years of grief
While everyone else moved on, I cried
13 years of wishing you were here
Wishing that you could hold me close again
13 years of being fatherless
Wishing that I had someone to call Dad
Dad its been 13 y
Who cares for that undiscovered country,
when a dragonfly can twirl through the air?
Who cares for wars in lands that are sultry,
when stars spend the night shifting the Great Bear?
Who cares for murder, drugs, rape, violence?
Desipient things hold no relevance.
When that glazed cake of sweet adolescence
is just ephemeral evanescence.
When you discover things that are frightening,
like blood or ghosts or intravenous shots,
just think, dear child, all that’s in forked lightning
is divine power, not bound by drawing lots.
Though age was indestructability,
we craved a surreal technicality.