08-15-2013, 11:36 AM
Now waiting, sitting, bored
Questions form
Worries put down
Everything must be fine
How could it not be?
The hours pass
Still no one comes
Sitting in my chair
Little legs swinging beneath
Watching people run to planes,
Greeting family
Did he forget?
No, that couldn't be
The blonde comes to me
With her pale tired skin
She takes me away from the commotion
Behind the scenes
Your dad is dead, he isn't coming to get you
Six hours of waiting
Numb in my throat
Silence, no tears
Just a wave of shock
Stunned I don't speak
She talks on, I don't hear
Three days he's been dead
All alone, no one knew
Everything's a blur,
Now at the end
His casket was beautiful
Navy with silver, abalone and seagulls
Still no tears, absolute silence
Disbelief growing steady
How could he have gone?
Ten years later,
Now an adult
I travel to his desert home
He isn't there
It's true he's in that casket
Buried deep in the ground
My grandma's second lost son
A man I never knew
Questions form
Worries put down
Everything must be fine
How could it not be?
The hours pass
Still no one comes
Sitting in my chair
Little legs swinging beneath
Watching people run to planes,
Greeting family
Did he forget?
No, that couldn't be
The blonde comes to me
With her pale tired skin
She takes me away from the commotion
Behind the scenes
Your dad is dead, he isn't coming to get you
Six hours of waiting
Numb in my throat
Silence, no tears
Just a wave of shock
Stunned I don't speak
She talks on, I don't hear
Three days he's been dead
All alone, no one knew
Everything's a blur,
Now at the end
His casket was beautiful
Navy with silver, abalone and seagulls
Still no tears, absolute silence
Disbelief growing steady
How could he have gone?
Ten years later,
Now an adult
I travel to his desert home
He isn't there
It's true he's in that casket
Buried deep in the ground
My grandma's second lost son
A man I never knew