For Daddy

For Daddy


I know he's gone
and the space he left
has left space in you
you've filled
with your own thoughts
and mortality.


Our could've
would've
should of's
change little of our past.


You were there-
and on time-
although you don't think you were.


No one will blame you on your actions
and no one will blame you harder than yourself.


There is nothing you could do
with life so far gone
and someone with pride so deep.


You are glorious
and alive
and have youth and spry smile
and have those around you
you'll never lose.


Even if gone
you are remembered
always
just as you remember him.


You are not ever forgotten
in memories of backs
pressed together in bed
and in nighttime stories
and simple acceptance.


It's inevitable
we'll end
but it's inevitable
we're remembered.


-Matthew Koutzun