A tribute to a father dear, <br />A tribute to a father no longer here. <br />It is to this day I remember you well, <br />On you my thoughts do dwell, <br />For you do I shed an eternal tear. <br /> <br />My loving father, to me so dear, <br />I once remember a time when you where here. <br />Captured in love everlasting I am locked, <br />Inside, deeply shaken and forever shocked, <br />Oh my father dear, I am wishing you were near. <br /> <br />I hold myself solely for the blame, <br />Carrying with me a ceaseless shame. <br />If only I had been more wise, <br />Maybe myself I would not despise, <br />Now forever burned by guilt’s endless flame. <br /> <br />This is a tribute to someone who ought to be here, <br />Who once was, and to my heart was ever so near. <br />Why did it ever have to be this way? <br />To come to a time when I must begin to pay <br />A tribute to a father dear, no longer here. <br /> <br />***<br /><br />Jimmy Watkinson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-tribute-to-a-father/
