http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foXCi7Bzc-I


Back when I was a child
Before life removed all the innocence
My father would lift me high
And dance with my mother and me and then


Spin me around till I fell asleep
Then up the stairs he would carry me
And I knew for sure
I was loved


If I could get another chance
Another walk, another dance with him
I’d play a song that would never, ever end
How I’d love, love, love to dance with my father again


Ooh, ooh


When I and my mother would disagree
To get my way I would run from her to him
He’d make me laugh just to comfort me, yeah, yeah
Then finally make me do just what my mama said


Later that night when I was asleep
He left a dollar under my sheet
Never dreamed that he
Would be gone from me


If I could steal one final glance
One final step, one final dance with him
I’d play a song that would never, ever end
‘Cause I’d love, love, love to dance with my father
again


Sometimes I’d listen outside her door
And I’d hear her, mama cryin’ for him
I pray for her even more than me
I pray for her even more than me


I know I’m prayin’ for much too much
But could You send back the only man she loved
I know You don’t do it usually
But Lord, she’s dyin’ to dance with my father again
Every night I fall asleep
And this is all I ever dream






david

(((David)))

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David...you express so well what I feel about my own father, gone from my side as well. You would think after close to twenty years after his passing that I wouldn't feel the sadness or empitness of it anymore, but, I do. I guess I will always miss him as you miss your father as well.

I wish we could get younger people to understand this while they still have their parents here..............thank you dear friend....

David - very heartfelt poem, thanks for sharing.

Makes me sad to read because of course it brings up emotions in me too, even though my father is physically still around.... he's not really.

Those are beautiful words David.

The words above are song lyrics from a group called ' Mike & the Mechanics' [former members of the group 'Genesis']..but because of his past.....

i wish they were my words but thery are not...........sighhhhh

but they do represent a lot of my feelings...........

my father and i had a strained relationship.....not because of me, but because of his past.....[WW11 Morturer medical corps he dealt with removing the dead]].......

Obviously his traumatic times made him slightly harder to get on with [though i tried so very much]

Mistiss....you are so very right...if only our younger people knew and understood the meaning of loss........

Wish if your dad is still around i beg you....send him the song........[maybe he may realise he needs to step forward]


David

ps i did not put on the above laugh icon.....dont know how to get it off...or how it got there...will a MOD PLEASE REMOVE IT PLEASE

I love that song!