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YOUNG I WAS WHEN I FELT THE PAIN OF THE REST MY LIFE,
YOUNG I WAS WHEN AT FIRST I ENJOYED MY LIFE ,
HERE TODAY THE MIDDLE OF LIFE I STAND TO SAY I SURVIVED,
FEAR OF YOU HAVE LONG GONE AS WITH FEAR OF THE DARK,
WET BEDS AND SLEEP IN THE DIRT ARE NOW COVERED UP BY BON FIRES AND TOAST,
STRAPS AND SMACKS SUSPENSIONS AND PAIN BOUGHT ON BY YOU HAVE GONE IN TIME,
WOUNDS ARE HEALING WITH THE HELP OF FULL MOONS AND FORGIVENESS IS NEARING AS AGE IS HEALING,
MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MADE AS I A YOUNG MAN THEY MADE ME THE MAN
AND DAD THAT I AM,
TOUGHNESS I MUST SAY THANK YOU DAD AS WITH OUT THAT ROUGH LIFE,
CUDDLES WOULD BE DESTROYED AND ANGER WOULD BE DEEP WITHIN SIDE,
UR HONESTY TO MAKE UP YOUR PAST HELL WITHIN THY LIFE HAVE MADE IT EASY FOR ME TO MOVE ON,
SO JUST A BIG THANKS TO ONE MAN I CAN NOW CALL DAD FOR STARTING TO LEARN AND PUTTING HIS LIFE ASIDE TO MAKE AMENDS FOR THE ABUSE OF PAST,
I THANK YOU DAD AND FORGIVE UR PAST HOPEFULLY WE CAN CONTINUE TO ENJOY OUR TIME ,
AS NOW WE BOTH CAN MOVE ON IN LIFE AND FINALLY I CAN SAY THANK YOU DAD.
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Posted: Sep 2012
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mcradloff
I have mixed feeling on my dad. He did work for 42 years in a god aweful meat plant so I could grow up middle class. He did take me fishing and hunting and morel and ginseng hunting. He didn't make me pay for the damage I did to his two trucks. He gave me my first car. So I'm thankful for that.professor
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