Trying To Justify Poem by Ray Hansell

The card I bought says
I miss you a lot
Won’t you please come home
The next line says
I love you
This you’ve always known

The picture on the card
Shows a man on a hill
Looking to the sky
As if searching for his will

I am like that picture
Each night I search the sky
Looking for some hope
Like a twinkle in an eye

I wonder where you’ve gone to
I know I’m the reason you left
I have learned the hard way
By losing you, I’ve lost the best

I have that card for you
I will keep it right here
I will give the card to you
The day you come home my dear

Or am I just a fool thinking, you’ll return
I now the things I did were wrong
I never should have hit you
But if you come home, I’ll try to be strong

I’ll try my best to keep my cool
To not raise my hand to you
But I can’t promise you all that much
You make me do the things I do

I know you said, it’s my fault
You said you’d never come back home
Please give me one more chance
For me to show you I have grown


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