A Daughter's Father…

I am my daughter's father,

I'll shed tears down at the alter,

No matter what sexuality or gender,

I'll wipe tears and kiss them to a forever.

Shailyn and Rian, you have my life, my time and my love,

I'm trying not to cry, I'm telling myself a lie, but I believe in the above,

As I write this on another lonely December,

At 2 am, your innocence is what I remember.

I try not to go in the past, the future is my cast but I can't move because of fear,

You're growing up too fast, your youth isn't to last and "I love you daddy" is all that I hear,

I can't remember the last time I held your hand crossing the road,

As a loving parent, when the man turns green, the tarmac is a ghost.

I am my daughter's father,

I'll shed tears down at the alter,

No matter what sexuality or gender,

I'll wipe tears and kiss them to a forever.

I'm going to ask you tomorrow can you hold my hand,

I'm going to stretch out my arm and hope you understand,

I'll tell you why I need your love, I'll tell you why together, I need to cross that road,

I have a desire to never let go, I told myself not to cry, but here I am in the winter's cold.

I am my daughter's father,

I'll shed tears down at the alter.

What am I to do?

Does love ever lose?

When the walls fall down,

Who will be around?

I can't change time, nor do I want to,

I gravitate to memories with an angelic tune,

Tears fall into delicate dreams of when they were younger,

They drip into a spiced rum, I just can't handle their hunger;

Their hunger of being free,

Their hunger of finding the world,

Their hunger of daring to learn,

Their hunger,

Their hunger...

I love!

I love their bravery,

I love their honesty,

I love the way they move with change!

Me...

Me, I stay the same in fermented pain.

But,

I am my daughter's father,

I'll shed tears down at the alter,

No matter what sexuality or gender,

I'll wipe tears and kiss them to a forever.

To a forever,

To a forever...