About a hundred years ago
You left me.
Sometimes I wish I knew
Who you were.
What your life would’ve been like
If you had raised me.
What about Mommy?
Did you love her?
I can’t help it…
Somethin’ inside keeps cryin’.
Daddy…
Where are you?
I’m a big boy now.
Well, I oughta know better.
No use cryin’ over milk
That’s already been spilled.
But I guess I’m here now…
So what’s the matter with cryin’?
Daddy…
Where are you?
Maybe you never knew my name.
Maybe you wondered too.
Maybe somewhere we both carried
Questions neither one could undo.
Time keeps telling me to move on…
But some little boys never stop listening…
For footsteps…
That never came.
I can’t help it…
Somethin’ inside keeps cryin’.
Daddy…
Where are you?
Copyright 1977 Dave-Michael Valentine All Rights Reserved