I'Ll Remember You

I'll remember your aroma Your signature scent The one that had "Daddy" written all over it. You'd rock me to sleep with it, You'd sing "White Christmas" to me with it. It calmed me, Softly, Like a lullaby when I'd cry And it soothed my stings and scraps From those annoying bugs and reckless bikes. I grew up with your scent, never realizing how I'd taken it for granted. Now, it's only what I have to remember you by, A solemn scent, now running only through my mind Never again will I have that part of you Or any part of you. At times I must endure dreams Of only dulled colors of your scent in my sleep But I soon wake to find That you, your scent, your being Are gone away, mixed with the odors of this world, And the aromas of others never again to be pin-pointed on anyone else, as it was on you, so soft, so serene. But only in my mind will any of it exist And only in my sleep will I remember it again.