Letting Go

I miss you
Since you’ve gone away
Part of me is missing
I feel it as I lay

My head down on my pillow
So soft and comforting
But it doesn’t ease the pain
My heart is still hurting

It aches to see you
One last time
To show how much I love you
Yet, I know this is a crime

To want to bring you back
To this hope forsaken land
For suffer, hurt, and pain
In leu of God’s Heaven

I can’t help
But to think about the world
You tried to protect me from
When I was a young girl

Sometimes I felt resentment
But I wanted you to see
I understand your actions
You did what you did for me

To guide me
Along my journey in life
When no one else was there
To help me cope with strife

You taught me to be strong
And to be aware
Of people’s bad intentions
Their ability to be unfair

I am today
Who I want to be
I don’t take shit from no one
Are you proud of me?

I’m not the sweet defenseless girl
I started out to be
You made me so much braver
Well, that and poverty

I’m as hard as a rock now
Maybe a little too so
But I wouldn’t trade it for anything
I wanted you to know

I will cherish you
And the memories that I have
Of growing up together
All the good and bad

They make us who we are
And at times they make me laugh
Like, “Hey, Micheal, look at me!”
While I was falling on my ass

You will always be with me
You notice, I got a tattoo?!
I didn’t feel the pain
I was thinking of you

My children will hear all about you
The funniest guy ever known
They’ll be grabbing their sides from the stories
Then, I will slip away alone

To shed tears for you
Which I’m sure will happen at times
To remember our time together
And read these heart-felt rhymes

I have accepted that you’re gone now
And I have to set you free
No more haunting my dreams
Rest peacefully

I would still love your visits, though
Every now and then
You are part of my life
And will be to my end.


I have to let go, so………..I’m letting you go.