Father dear father <br />I must have loved you <br /> <br />But to hear you <br />Hurt my mother <br />Made me want <br />To hate you <br /> <br />I should have been able <br />To look up to you like all sons do <br />But all I wanted to do <br />Was hurt you <br /> <br />I'd lie in bed awake <br />And hear my mothers cries <br />All I could do <br />Was try find a world without you <br /> <br />We feared you <br />We fled you <br />But we could <br />Never escape you <br /> <br />Untill one dark night <br />I stopped you <br />And saw the fear <br />In your eyes <br /> <br />I went from boy to a man <br />To stop my mothers cries <br /> <br />I still look back with sadness <br />But I can still see my mothers pride <br />As I stand by her side <br /> <br />Boy to a man <br /> <br />In loving memory to my mother<br /><br />Dave Alan Walker<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/boy-to-a-man/
