The hardest thing I have ever done.
How do you tell your son?
How do you tell your son his daddies leaving?
How do you tell your son there will be no more bed time stories?
How do you tell your son that the world we know has come to an end?
That his peddle bike we were repairing will never mend
His mother had made the choice and would not bend
Her love for me had gone and her feelings come to an end.
Never again to be able to wake him with a kiss his first of the day
Why me? Why did I have to tell him? What would I say?
How do you explain to a 7 year old the actions of adults?
There were no arguments, rows or exchanging insults
How do you show him that the words hurting him were from my heart?
These words were also destroying me and tearing me apart
He would stay in his home, he would stay at his school and he would still have his mother.
The only thing missing from his every day life
His father, complete with broken heart but now without a wife
I became a weekend dad and through all the heartache we managed to save what we had.
The love of a father for his son and love of a son for his father, this we will always have.
By Ray