Dad, Dad

 Dad, My Father

    Hi Dad.

    I wanted to tell you hello

    Salutations!

    Tell you that I am thinking of you

    

    Whether you know it or not

    You are there with me in every horizon I see

    Every mile I travel

    Every film or show that I witness

    You are there

    Riding along with me

    Sometimes, like Alfred Hitchcock, Tarantino, or Stan Lee,

    You appear in a cameo, a brief scene

    In a show that I watch

    A character, a line, a laugh, a song.

    You are in there, dad.

    From my earliest childhood memories

    To watching my own children be born

    You took me fishing

    Hiking

    Crooning

    Dreaming

    Like it or not, I am stuck with you, Dad.

    You are stuck with me.

    I will never leave you.

    We are together, in the thick and thin.

    In the near and far, the tight or loose.

    You and me. Forever co-linked.

    I love you.

    I think of you.

    I miss you.

    Be at ease.

    

    We are one.

    I am always here.

    With you.

    I am your child, forever.