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