Still Dad...
If I could come to this world again, I would love to come through you. I just want to be with you longer next time. You gave me everything you could have. God enabled you to do all you did. A day is never enough to celebrate you, dad.
I wrote several poems for you after you left and I am going to share it again here.
I just want to keep talking about you. It has nothing to do with your memory fading because it can never fade. I just want to keep telling everyone what a wonderful father you were. You loved like a father should and would.
Or even watch you from afar and follow your trace
I wish I could watch your smiles
And walk with you several miles
On a dusty way or even on tiles
Even in the forest filled with reptiles
Just to pour out my heart to you
Tell you things I've learned about life so far
To tell you everything you told me came to pass
You were really a wise man
You look deep into people and know how exactly they are
A special trait I picked from you
I want to watch you sound your horn with my name
When you are outside the gate
I want to watch you leave meat for me on your plate
I want to hear you scold me without hate
Then take permission from you to go on a date
I want to rush home from the football field to avoid getting home late
I miss those tiny details with you
Sneak to your phone and use your credit
Drop the list of things I need and watch you cross some hahaha
Thoughts of you got me teary eyed right now
But they are precious moments I would never trade wishing I was another's
You were the perfect father
And rightly, God helped you so
I could go on and on...
The bottom line is I miss you and it hurts not having you close
News flash! God picked up where you left off
He helped you then, more so now when you were not around
Sleep on Abraham Olufemi Oladoja.
NB: hahaha I still copy your signature covers face
Happy post humous birthday to you dad. I love you always. Never changing...never will. Memories of good people like you can never fail...
Thank you for your time.
My pen doesn't bleed, it speaks, with speed and ease.
Still me,
My tongue is like the pen of a ready writer.
Olawalium; (Love's chemical content, in human form). Take a dose today: doctor's order.
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