Dear Daughter (poem) (by Phill Ibsen)

Dear Daughter.

Don’t know what life has in store
Don’t know what tomorrow holds
Don’t know how grown you look
Do you still think of mom?
Do you recall dad’s face?
At heart you do exist

Don’t know what we did wrong
Mom n Dad tried to be strong
For you, you changed my perception
For you, I gave all my attention
Your face I never got to see
In my life, you I still seek

It’s been far too long
To hear just but your breath
Even just on a phone
Somewhere, someplace
Someone holds you somehow
My heart aches for this void
Maybe I would’ve been the best dad

Why things happen so fast?
Why I hadn’t had a second chance?
Why did I gave you up?
Why’d mom had to go?
She brought you in this world
She ought to watch you grow
I don’t understand

Letting…