If I could one last time make you smile <br />My blackened blood would run red, <br />and the guilt in my heart would at last be dead. <br />Secret memories hidden within family trees, <br />to relive one with you, to ammend and appease. <br />Since you have departed this now cold life, <br />stuck down, stabbed, by natures cruel knife, <br />Your Gracious garden has succumbed to decay <br />The flowers seemed to wilt on that sad, sad day. <br />Flowers, red, yellow, panzy pink and blue, <br />dancing rainbows remind me of you. <br />Remember our spot where the sun always shone, <br />Remember that giant tree, I slipped and fell from. <br />Remember heavenly scents from the flowers self, <br />I remember the dying roses, imitating your health. <br />Remember the rusty old alide, that would always rock <br />I have no choice but to remember for your time has stopped. <br />Dear Father our tree is a chorus in the wind <br />Can you hear it, can you, it has not dimmed. <br />High above in the heaven brushing branches <br />I can see a just born bird, weak legged it dances. <br />And so the circle is complete, one life ends a new one begins <br />Yet this grief, direct and cold, never ever dims.<br /><br />Not Long Left<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-my-father-if-only-words-could-reconcile/
