Without You Poem by Abdullah Salaam

I am 19 now
I was a little boy once
all alone in the world scared
the pain too much to bare
i have erased my past
in dark room i stood
many are there
like me who grew
up without a fatherly figure
who knew nothing else but pain
18 years is a long time
to not know what it feels like to be hugged
to not know to go for walks on the seashore
to not know how it felt to be loved
by your father
with him i came in to this world
without him i became a man in this world
without him i learned how to love and how it felt to be loved
without him i have learned a lot
imagine what i would have done with him