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LyricFetish
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since 2000-01-13
Posts 528
North Carolina

0 posted 2000-04-13 07:43 PM


*This poem is auto-biographical. I wrote it for my dad, who died in a car wreck four years ago.*

Spinning shadows
On the walls
Your time runs out
The curtain falls

No goodnight kiss
No last embrace
No 'daddy's girl'
Just empty space

Your eyes are closed
Your bed is cold
Reach out, but find
No hand to hold

Your song is done
The music fades
And roses settle
On your grave

Through sleepless nights
And angry tears
Dad, have you missed me
All these years?

The wide-eyed child
Whose face you knew
Has grown, but still
Remembers you

I'll always feel
This void inside
This place left aching
Since you died

But all the horror
In the world
Will never stop
Your little girl

Timothy McGhin
(1956-1996)

[This message has been edited by LyricFetish (edited 04-13-2000).]

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**Angel**
Member
since 2000-03-31
Posts 162

1 posted 2000-04-13 07:54 PM


I have tears in my eyes! I cannot imagine the pain you felt and still feel. This is an amazing poem.
I am so sorry for your loss.

Lindsay

Yu Lan
Senior Member
since 2000-04-13
Posts 1462
New Zealand
2 posted 2000-04-13 08:28 PM


This poem.. is so moving.. u must have loved your dad a lot, and I am sure he would be proud of u, and your talent.. this is a nice way to remember someone.. with a poem... especially one as beautiful as this...

Lynne

LyricFetish
Senior Member
since 2000-01-13
Posts 528
North Carolina
3 posted 2000-04-14 09:36 AM


Thank you both so much. I was a little nervous about posting this cause it's so personal, but I really needed to get it off my chest. I want to thank everyone in here for encouraging me as a poet, and as a person. I love you guys!!!

*~Meredith~*

 *There is no destination where we are
Please take me somewhere far
Far away from this world of mine*
(by me)


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