A Song For My Father

Father, I hope you are happy in heaven.

You sure went through hell on earth.

Please prepare a room for me in heaven.

I will be there to see you, if I can prove my worth.

My thoughts often drift back, to when I was a kid.

I feel blessed I didn’t do, what my Father did.

He let alcohol completely, control his life,

As if he had forgotten, his two kids and wife.

I was told, sober, he was a gentle man,

He would start drinking, and turn mean.

He worked and did, as good as he could do.

After work he’d drink, fight and cause a scene.

I never got to, know my Father.

I can barely remember him.

He past, when I was only three.

My brother was eight, and closer to him.

The sight of him, in the coffin,

Is the scene, I remember most.

All the family, was there and crying.

I just hung on to Momma, feeling sad and lost.

Father, I hope you are happy in heaven.

You sure went through hell on earth.

Please prepare a room for me in heaven.

I will be there to see you, if I can prove my worth.

I was told my Father, was wounded in the war.

He came home a changed man,

More somber, and not as happy as before.

The more I think of it, the more I understand.

He was fighting the pain, in his body and mind.

He tried to hide it, then the demons would attack.

For the pain, he drank, for the demons, he’d fight.

I wish I was older then, to have his back.

He was in a VA hospital, when the demons attacked.

He had a bout with the D Ts, it made him go mad.

He jumped out a widow to escape, and ran to the gate.

A guard tried to stop him, and hit him with all he had.

The army called it suicide, but I now know the truth.

I would do anything to fight it, if I had the proof.

I guess I will have to let it go, it has been far too long.

The only thing I can do about it, is write his song.

Father, I hope you are happy in heaven.

You sure went through hell on earth.

Please prepare a room for me in heaven.

I will be there to see you, if I can prove my worth.

I am sorry, this is the best I can do.

This is the story I know, this song is for you.