Dear Daddy

by Lena Harbaugh
(Frederick, MD)

Dear Daddy,

How are you today? I'm doing okay, just sad that you have gone away. I hope everything is working out for you in your new home. I wish I could see you because I feel so alone. I've been looking at a picture of you and me everyday. I look at it hoping God will take my pain away. It hurts me when I realize my daddy is really gone. It hurts so bad that I cry and cry from dusk til' dawn. I'm sorry I don't show you how much I love you as often as I should, but I tell you what, if I could just hit rewind and go back I would. I miss hearing you play the guitar and all of us singing together. Those were fun times that will be in my heart and cherished forever. Remember when I was about three or four? And we were blowing bubbles all over the kitchen floor? We were having so much fun slipping and sliding. That's the kind of happiness I'm going to have trouble finding. I can't believe you're gone daddy, I want you to come back. But I know this was God's plan and there was nothing I could do to change that. Well I hope all of your pain is gone and that you are feeling better. I'm going to go for now but I promise not forever.