Jamien
I wish i could be there
To watch you grow and grow
I wish i could be the man
The man you need to know
I wish i had the courage
To simply walk through the door
I wish i had the power
To make things as they were before
Sometimes when im alone
I see me and what ive done
A man just like his father
A father that left his son
This sight shakes me to my core
The foundation of what makes me me
Ill nevar be like that man
Ill nevar leave my seed
Those words echo through my mind
As i look at my current life
I mean point for point i left my son
And picked up another wife
Becoming father to anothers kid
And moving to a better house
Two dogs and a picket fence
Knowing not if JAMIEN had food in his mouth
I want to say they took you
Or he is in a better place
When truth be told it was just to painful
To painful to see her face
Around you there's always this light
And i know from where it came
It came from the one that lives within you
The one that gave you your name
This light so bright it hurts my eyes
And made tears fall from my face
Shinning light on all my failures
Primarely my failure to keep her safe.
Copyright © Dewayne Coleman | Year Posted 2018
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