Dad

I am like you in so many ways
I remember every letter you wrote me
Every word is in my head to this day

Like when you wrote me if I’d ever marry
You would be the absentee
All just because you were so mad at me

I remember all the tears I cried
For not living up to your expectations
I will carry them with me the rest of my life

There were times with bad grades
Teenage behavior and sleepless nights
Do I still have to pay for those mistakes?

She's such a striver said my professor
But you don't know who I am
Cause you said this can't be about my daughter

But you are my mirror in life
I’ve learned to forgive mistakes
Cause resentful is not what I want to be like

You will walk me down the aisle when I marry
Cause if I would hold the past against you
I would do the same thing you did to me