The Truth Hurts

You had meant so much to me;

for you had been the only man

who had cared for me.

I thought you would be here;

but God did not see it that way.

For he took the angel

that he had sent down to me

so long ago. .

back up to Heaven to stay.

I was never the same. .

after you went away.

Things were over too soon. .

I had wanted for you to stay.

You had always meant so very much.

It has been thirty-four years. .

but I still long for my father's

loving touch.