Dad I Love You Poems

I tried,
I tried really really hard.
To be good enough, smart enough.
I became who he wanted me to be,
a good son who praised him.
Still that wasn’t...

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After 63 years of smiling 
You might say I’m a professional 
I don’t know when I smiled for the first time
After all I was a...

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In my few quiet moments, I always say grace, 
a mother first, trying to find my place, 
my eyes are tired, every single day, 
I’m...

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Every day
I walked by the dead cockroach on
The second floor’s third stair.
I was out of breath by the sixth. 
On the eighth I’d stop, 
And...

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Eight years old in short pants clad, 
I am going with my dad, 
Dodger stadium, surreal - 
but Heaven is for real.

Late at night, lifeguard...

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To the man who stood so tall,
Who picked me up with every fall.
In life’s loud storm or silent pain,
You stood like shelter in the rain.

When...

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To each of my children please know I love you.
If you weren't my children, I don't know what I'd do.
As babies and infants you brought...

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I came from the cracked earth,
where sirens sang lullabies
and gunshots kept rhythm
like a mother’s heart—
fast, then gone.

We ate what we stole,
slept where we fell,
and called...

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there's a movie i used to watch over and over as a kid 
it's why i love old glass and putting flowers in coke bottles...

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Hi, Mom.
I hope you’re somewhere beautiful—
the way Dad always says you are.

I’m older now.
Not a baby anymore.
I wish I could remember your voice,
but I hear...

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[Verse 1]
Hey dudes,
You ever feel small
Like the world’s too loud,
And none of it’s you at all?
Your dad said, stand tall,
But your heart just wants
To crawl...

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The most important person in his life was his daughter
He couldn't live without her
She was his whole heart
Life without her wasn't worth it

He reminisced on...

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[Verse 1]
 Everything you did, I kicked to the dust
 Told me that you loved me, but that wasnt enough
 Tired of bein’ second when...

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To the world you are just a person
But to me you are the world
You are the rarest of the rare
To the point no one can...

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[Verse 1]
Well, hello there, Romeo — didn’t hear you knock
Waltzin' in like love ain’t got a lock
You've got big dreams and a borrowed car
And a...

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