My Daddy Went Away Today ((Repost))

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Broken_Winged_Angel
Senior Member

since 2000-04-06

Posts 994
Small Town, Somewhere

0 posted 2000-10-12 08:33 AM

My daddy went away today
I don't know where he's gone
He said goodbye and not to cry
And then he left our home

Six months ago my daddy left
He never turned around
His truck drove off, left us in dust
And now my daddy's gone

A year ago I said goodbye
To the man who is my father
I haven't heard from him since then
And neither has my mother

The family's hired detectives
To try and find my dad
It's been a year and a half now
And the familys really sad.

Two years ago my dad drove off
A lot has changed since then
His mothers' dying from a broken heart
I wish someone would hear from him

Three years have passed since that last day
When I was still his little girl
Now I can't help but silently wonder
Who brightens his part of the world

He hasn't called and hasn't wrote
We all think he's dead
Not a sound in the past four years
Has anyone heard from my dad

Graduation came and went
My birthdays have been and gone
It's been too many years to count
Since my daddy left our home

My moms found a new boyfriend
And my grandmas passed away
I moved into my own apartment
Then my sister called today

She found my dad in a southern state
He's alive and well
Seems all the time that he's been gone
He was kind of ill.

He wants to come back home now
To have what he left behind
I can't believe he has the nerve
To say he changed his mind.

The man I saw at the re-union
Sure does resemble my dad
Looks the way he oughta look
If he were alive instead of dead.

I know I oughta forgive him
Look past all the tears and pain
But he could've written once or twice
To say we'd see him again

The family re-unions finally over
Some of us said what we wanted to say
Now the circles' starting all over again
My daddy went away today.

With a little piece of tomorrow,
You'll have to kiss yesterday goodbye.
Because today won't last forever,
And the past will only make you cry.

dgvarner
Member Elite

since 2000-05-13

Posts 3552
High Springs, Florida

1 posted 2000-10-13 11:32 AM

i remember reading this the first time around...it tugs at the heartstrings...

it shouldnt be on page 5 w/ no responses.....

hugs to you, dg

she doesnt want the kind of love she can live with--she wants the kind she cant live without
-clint black

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

2 posted 2000-10-13 07:33 PM

More should read it, it's very heartfelt and brought me into a time of remembrance.

Kathleen

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