inner child

LETTING GO

A lifetime
Spent searching

For a love
Long lost

Innocence was desperate
Not aware of the cost

Looked in every corner
Found it did not exist

Just emptiness and aching
Memories of moments  missed

Never to be recaptured
It was so very long ago

A young heart was broken
No directions where to go

Unconscious in hope
Someone would replace

The love of a Father
That had just gone to waste

The eyes of that child
Were big they were sad

Misunderstood love
Absent all those years

Love for her Daddy
Filled her whole being

Needed something from him
He was lost and not seeing

Much later in life
At his gravesite she sat

Felt the warm grass beneath her
It was time for a chat

She spoke to his Spirit
On that warm summers day

“You loved me I know
But I got lost along the way”

“So thank you Daddy”
her eyes spilling gentle tears

“For teaching me of life
And overcoming my fears

Time's come to release you
We both now are free

Heart to heart forever
Throughout Eternity.”


Di Niven © 2006