The Best Dad in the World

purple_chick79

Who is the best dad in the world?

Well, you are, here’s why

Your there to listen to me

Your there to cheer me up

Your there to help me out, whenever you can

Even though my childhood wasn’t the greatest

I could have never have asked for more

You have taught me so much

More than you will ever know

With the miles between us

There is something you must know

You are the greatest dad

A girl could ever have

of_the_girl

rarghrargh-brownstar

*sniff*

stinkydoggy

binge on the good
don't know how it will last
all the visions we carry
too difficult to explain

see i've got 2 dads
they're both loving me now
dad 1 was an asshole
til he realized he was

just like dad 1's dad 1
couldn't find all the answes
when he needed them
if only he'd seen

he'd captured pure love
hope in the middle of his constant fight
sails away ^-^-^-^-^-^

he couldn't understand that
a man could have a heart
that it's a strength not weak
like he said

he didn't do a very good job
at fucking me up
cause all along i knew
there existed dad 2

now dad 2 is a mystery
how he even got through
i found him in silence
and through time it grew
tested waters
learned lots

the most important
lesson lucid life
the answers within

reAssured to let go
let me know there was more
wisdom in physical emptiness
so much more room
for the thoughts
to continually transcend
...become anything..

FinsburyParkCarrots

Where my Dad comes from, the otters are ten feet long,
The whales spout jets out of their blowholes to say they're at the bay,
Grainuaile's ghost does the nightly rounds by the castle walls,
Your Guinness glass sticks to the counter, if a bit splashed out, it's that strong,
orchids and rhodedendrons grow on the roadside,
and mountain hedge berries swell in red, until they're bigger than the view of distant mountains in quartzy blue:

and you'd hear all this in his voice,
feel all this when you shake his hand,
know all this when you lift the shovel he's used
to clear the stream to let the moorhens swim freely.
Where my Dad takes you, golden horses come in and win at a longshot,
People make handwriting in letters that weave a text of home and love,
Tea tastes like tea,
Columbo will always be on the TV saying "And just one more thing...",
The van might need hoovering out,
and 25 watt bulbs will go around an outdoor Christmas tree.

A pipe will be be smoking Condor Long Cut, the brown packet,
Glasses will have a wing stuck to the lens with sellotape,
A false tooth will be left to relax in an ashtray,
Big toes will be sticking out of green socks,
and a big happy smile will be infectious.
Infectious like good infection... like trees getting the blossom thing up and down your street.

And really, he's pushing eighty
But he's one mighty,
mighty,
mighty,
mighty
fella.

And alluvvvim.

of_the_girl

Finsbury, I loved that!