Hello dad <br />Listen to the worlds of this song I wrote just for you <br />I sometimes question myself what are the things that I have from you <br />I don’t have much from you <br />Just some old paintings and some Persian carpets <br />Nothing else <br />I never had the chance to say good-bye once more to you because I was too young to understand what death really was <br />You never called me back anymore, because you didn’t want to frightened me about the hospital and you didn’t want me to have seen you hooked to machines <br />I left home to start a new life <br />And to have a new chance to be somebody in life <br />I don’t remember much of you because you died after I left <br />I don’t know why you didn’t want me to have a better life and just sit around and be a vegetable <br />For the rest of my life <br />I left it anyway, because I needed a new life, a new meaning in life <br />An opportunity came, and I went ahead and moved to a better place where others treat me like a human being, not like an animal <br />Don’t you see that my life back home was worthless, because there was nothing for me and I could tell you that straigh to your face? <br />It wasn’t life; it was just like rooting away in a cage like an animal <br />It was not reality but fantasy <br />If I had stayed back home, what life would I have today? <br />My life today is a happy one <br />I am somebody today <br />I am not rich in money, I am rich in spirit <br />I don’t live the life of the rich and famous anymore, today I just live a simple life <br />The luxuries I had before, I will never be able to afford than anymore <br />Today I found the new meaning in my life for me After all the things that I experience in life <br />I have the true understanding about death because I had to face it so many times<br /><br />Aldo Kraas<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hello-dad/
