Papa's Love Poem by christina merritt

Its been a few years

and ive been doing okay

because i knew you were always here

todays the first day i didnt feel your prescence

and its the first of many im sure i will cry

cry so many tears

becasue a man i once loved

his prescence isnt here today

i know he loves me

and wants to be with me

but god said it was his time to go

and heavens too far to go for a day

to far to make a trip with the kids

but not too far for his hand to be on my soul

touching everyday

to make sure i will be okay

days like this bring tears

but i will be with him one day

i love my papa

and boy do i know

how he loved me so

i know one day ill sit with him again

and look down the stairs at my own lil kids

he taught me to be brave

and never seek the past

that life is to short not to live it fast

he left me a legacy

one of honor and good will

it aches not to have him here

but do i ever know hes near

never to far to make me smile

but not close enough to dry my tears

i didnt feel his prescense so i cried today

but all i gotta do is look at the sky.

and know hes there

he told me love ever after

that a papas love is a love forever

i know one day we'll play again

but until that day ill stand frayed

and miss his prescense

and wonder alone

what would have happened

if he were here today

i knew the love of a papa

as so many kids do not

and i know it seems selfish

to cry so many tears

but i do care not

cause that man was my life

he was my heart and soul.

and one day soon

he'll touch my soul again

I LOVE YOU POPPY

till the end