Dear Dad,

Maybe I'm a few years too late Hopefully, I'm not You were the person I wanted to be But what I became, I hate The air within my lungs Tearing my throat apart A loss of words, I cannot explain With eyes of a soft gold hue We imagined life without pain And now I live my own life A life without you Why could I not have known you better? Why do I have to live like this Knowing nothing except I don't know enough I saw you resting peacefully Not a single breath to stir the room I was just so cold While you lay there, covered In blood from your wounds "I love you, never forget that" Love never felt so true But a witness to your suicide Must I remind myself? These images of the good times They escape me But the tears upon your lifeless cheek In these thoughts, I shall drown