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Letter To My Children

Maybe if I write a letter to the son I killed Maybe if I wrote to my dead daughter My soul would finally heal Maybe me and your mother would get back Together instead of being just A beak and feathers Two dead doves We spoke all the time of love But with all this love We lack the courage To say that our luck’s up Cause we "messed" up And we need help Instead we dealt with it wrong Now I have to write a song to my lost boy Now I have to lose out on life’s joy Cause I was young and stupid And I killed my kid Faced with so much guilt Over the blood that I let get spilt But GOD works in mysterious ways So if I have to spend days Emotionally broken over this Its fine cause she’s been through All the physical pain So now as this rain Falls its beginning to pour So if I had to write this letter It’d start “Hey Daddy’s Girl” Or “My Son” Or maybe “Dear Little One” You were never here but you’re still gone But Daddy still loves you And he’s sorry he took away all your firsts Sorry that he’d never be able to protect you from closet ghosts Daddy’s writing you this letter I hope GOD lets you read it.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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