I wish you were here dad.
Here to help me though this heartbreak.
I wish you were here so you could’ve told me from the start he was a jerk and I would’ve listened.
I wish you could’ve wiped away the tears when he broke me into a million pieces.
I wish you could’ve stroked my hair and told me everything was gonna be okay,
Even when I think this is the end of my teenage world.
I wish you were here dad.
Here to yell at me for my grades.
Here to tell me how disappointed you are, and that I’m better than this.
I wish you were here to help me with my geometry.
I wish you were here to tell me to tell me I was grounded
Because I’m about to fail my 10th grade year.
I wish you were here dad.
Here to teach me to drive and give me your old truck.
I wish you were here to see me blow out the candles on my 16th birthday and wish for more shoes.
Here to kiss me on the top of my head as you send me off to drive on my own for the very first time.
I wish you were here dad.
Here to sneak around moms back and do things she’d never let us.
I wish you were here when I’m sad alone on a Friday night and you ask me to go out with you.
I wish you were here to tell me no
Even when it’s not what I want to hear.
No to boys
And parties
And short dresses.
I wish you were here to teach me what love is.
I wish you were my dad, dad.
I wish you’d pick up the phone and ask me how I’m doing.
I wish you’d wonder what the colour of my hair is
Or how I’m doing in high school.
I wish you’d care about me.
I wish you would stop regretting I was ever born
Because all it makes me do is the same.
You see dad, even if you didn’t raise me, I’ve picked up on a few of your examples.
I hate me too, dad.
But you got to leave.
I don’t.
I wish you’d never left or never had me at all
I wish you’d realize I’m miserable.
I wish you’d come back.
I wish you’d love me.
I wish you were here, dad.