Dear Dad

With each passing year, your absence 
makes its presence felt
Now I count your loss in decades

Many lifetimes have come and gone
since you left, yet I miss you more
each time this day comes around

Perhaps the older I grow, the better
I understand the void you left behind
Death didn’t seem a big word then

Perhaps I was too small 
to measure its significance
in the seconds, minutes, 
hours I now count

So I look to the heavens today
with tears clouding my vision
say Happy Birthday, Dad

I wish I could wish you back into this life
So you could see how I’ve grown
Perhaps that twinkle in the sky
is the one in your eyes, the one
saying you are proud of me

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