DEAR DADDY

Dear Daddy:


A dozen years without you
Just another Father's Day
To sit and think about you
Wish we were making hay;
I'd bring you vinegar drink
Give the horse some salt
We'd work awhile & then
Sit aside a bit to talk.

I loved to hear your stories
'Bout when you were a lad
How you made me laugh
When you were being bad;
We'd then stack the hay
And put it in the barn
Milk the cow, get the eggs
How you loved our farm.

Now I buy them at the store
Butter, milk and eggs
But I can't buy a daddy
Blue eyes and long legs;
How I still miss you, Dad
I sit upon the stool
You made just for me
Before I started school.

I pray you are safe and sound
And will wait for me
To join my hand with your's
Wherever you may be;
I miss you on Fathers Day
Like I do every night
Return to me in my dreams
And I'll leave on the light.