Will Karry Poet Ballad

What a Price To Pay

He slips into her world without her knowledge 
And watched her from a distance day by day 
As tears streamed down his face and hit the pavement 
Then he thinks to himself, “what a price to pay” 
Somewhere, somehow things in his marriage fell to pieces 
Her expensive lawyer branded him unfit for custody 
No calls, no visits or the system will place him in irons 
And banish him from the state in the first degree 
His little girl now has another daddy 
And his ex has very fashionable ways 
But his daughter stays to herself quite often 
And she has those unseen friends when she plays  
He watches as she gets off the bus at school time 
And snaps another photo for keep sakes 
But oh how he’d love to hold her close again 
This daddy who’s heart is weak and still aches 
She graduated high school with honors  
As photos were snapped from places unseen 
He slips back so the shadows would protect him 
From his vantage point on the mezzanine 
She somehow learns of all the times he wanted to see her 
And leaves her mother high and dry 
She changed her name to that of her daddy’s 
And threw away her mama’s piece of pie 
He’s buried in his family cemetery 
She visits his grave every week or so 
And sings little songs that she makes up 
And pays no attention to her tears that flow

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