Another holiday
Another empty plate
Another empty seat
Where you used to belong
Another family photo
Another postcard moment
Another chance to remember
What we're truly missing

It's been so long
And I miss you so
I wish you were here
Just to say hello
The two dads that meant the most
Keith Montgomery
And William Yost
I wish I would've said more
About what you meant to me
I wish you were still here
Helping me to see
Your wisdom kindness and love
Always a treasure
A wonderful gift from above.

Some of us don't realize
Until its too late
What we are missing
Or what was on our plate
We assume and assume
Til we can assume no more
Until that day
Our love walks out the door
Then we fret and worry
Forever saying sorry
And we are left being told
They're tired of that story
Alone again
We begin a new
Chasing forever what was
Believing its our due.

By rejecting me
You've rejected you
Because you and I
Were one

Every harm you've visited
Upon me inflicted
You've done naught
But harm yourself

Every lonely night
Swept with tears
Fallen from my heart
Have been wept by you

You rejected you
And what kind of life is that
When we blame ourselves
For everything we each have done

I am free
No longer rejected
No longer punished
And tears dried away

For in the end
You rejected you
And me
I was set free.

Her breath weighs heavy in the air
Silent, still, we wait
And the question remains
Unanswered
A small token of hope

Small tokens and unspoken
Dreams
We hold hands and wait
Her, ethereal
And I material

Material, I am a prisoner of now
And she a whisper
Of tomorrow
Her question hangs heavy
In our hearts

When?

Flicker flying fast
An allegory in abstract
Distended distress dystopia
And a idiotic ideal indeed

She's spoke by way of suppuration
Alliterarion always around
Eager empty erudite
Words without will

Today I will try
Tomorrow a little more
And after maybe I'll get it
And won't have to worry.

She smiled
And I hid my delight
Wish I could say more
But her eyes stole my will

She's a never-ending
Woulda been
A whirling
Coulda been

I heard her laugh
And I tried not to notice
Wish I could let on
But her smile says no

One day spinning
Caught in her gravity
A woulda coulda
A shining angel in grey

One little drop
Drip by drip
Stains my soul
And spreads...

Bright like sonshine
Hope drops in
Stains and spreading joy
One little drop
Drip by daily drip