SHOULD BE ABLE

 © RYAN GUILEY

I never showed them or was their guide,

The memories that I didn’t provide,

It’s tough to ever understand,

As they are set off to a new land.

 

I should be able to watch them grow,

Not darkened days like a black crow,

Just to see them smile and laugh,

Take them to the zoo to see giraffes.

 

It is my responsibility to be a father,

Not for the agencies to interfere and bother,

Once only, is your opportunity to support,

What ever I do, they abolish and distort.

 

They assume it will be a long process,

That I will let more time cost us,

 It just doesn’t work that way,

I don’t care, my days will never be grey.

 

No longer will we be separated,

As I will never stop or be jaded,

Enough, is getting to be enough,

So, I can nurture them and give them love.

 

We don’t deserve any of this,

As I can’t provide a goodnight kiss,

To hear them or see them light up,

Or be invited to a tea party with cups.

 

It gets harder with more time gone,

The grass is not green on my lawn,

To see her braids or his hockey goal,

I am not getting deeper in this hole.

 

It will stop as more years won’t surpass,

No one is going to shatter our glass,

No parent should be ever excluded,

As I will fight for them not being diluted.