I Can Never Forget

All of these years have slipped slowly away
Yet still in a single instant of time~
I will hear an old song play
And again I could cry for father divine~
My own most loving and caring
Father , My dad , My best friend~
How he loved and adored us kids so much
And he worshiped my mother no end~
How I believe she never had feeling
In her body nor in her soul~
They both married for unknown reasons
Away back in the now days of old~
He adored my mother just no end
Married after my eldest sisters birth~
And once she had my father she just never wanted
One man in her life but many of lesser worth~
Nothing in life fazed my mother
A woman who simply did not care~
Who she hurt as she went from day to day
All things in her life they were fair~
She'd leave ever so many times without warning
Only to come back home when she was done~
And her home was always perfect and waiting
After she sowed all her seeds and had fun~
My father he worked hard all of his life
And all the eldest they then moved away~
Leaving at home then the two youngest
To cop all of the worst come what may~
My father was never a weak man in any way
He was as fit as he was strong~
But he knew it's true who was to blame
Though many unknowing blamed him all along~
Non were ever game to say things to his face
However he always knew~
What the whole town thought of it all
Though several were no better than her it's true~
She took away all of the goodness
That a mother installs in a home~
And always at a minutes notice
She'd leave all who adored her alone~
My father how dearly he adored her
In reality to the moment he died~
And nothing in life fazed my mother
I cannot remember a time that she cried~
My father he stood tall in the whole mess
How the town folk they'd all talk away~
All those that did all know my mother
And those that wished that they had on the day~
He loved us simply no end all of his life
She never loved any at all~
Exempt of the feeling within her soul
My mother lived just to have a ball~
My dad lost count of her lovers
Non of them were the soil on his shoes~
She lived a life mostly of an out there somewhere wife
So many other women's husband they formed the cues~
She had more talents in life than ever
Good at all she ever took on~
How the town only wished they could match her
As she lived a life high and in song~
A woman of several personalities
Ability that all wished they had~
But the one thing it's true that she could not do
Love another and for sure my Dad~
she spent life living her life so
Regardless of anyone or anything~
How she played the church organ so beautifully
And yes this woman could also sing~
She was a gardener at home in her spare time
Like many in town wished they could do~
She was the whole towns best ever dress maker
Generations wore her dresses as they all grew~
But exempt of a loving feeling
She'd help strangers but never her own~
How as a child we needed a mother
So so very often she simply was not at home~

Terrence Michael Sutton
copyright 2008

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