The day he dies, you’ll stop breathing for a moment too. You’ll wonder how the world around you continues to go on.
The day he dies a piece of you will die too. You’ll learn this is a piece that you cannot fill. It is a piece that cannot be replaced by anything, ever.
The day he dies you’ll start a new life. Your new life will be fatherless. It will be different than before in the most painful and heartbreaking way.
The day he dies you will look around and question everything. You’ll question your faith, your last words, and every moment you spent away from him. Your questions will never be answered, but keep asking anyway.
The day he dies you’ll be in complete disbelief. You will refuse to accept this reality but it will stay with you. One day the debilitating reality will sink in. This day is just as bad as the day he dies.
The day he dies you will be frozen with heartbreak, confusion and terror. You will develop new anxieties and fears, ones you’ve never had before. Some days these new fears will be debilitating.
The day he dies, you become an adult. The kind of adult that doesn’t have a father. That is a different kind of adult than before, trust me.
The day he dies you will long for his fatherly affection– his hugs, his time and more than anything, his presence. This longing never goes away and neither does the search for him.
It stays with you, but so does he, because…
The day he dies you gain a priceless and powerful guardian angel. You can’t see him, but he is there, just as he promised.
The day he dies you will look around at all of the people that are there supporting you and helping you pick up the pieces. The people that show up are your people. Never forget the ones that showed up, they are special.
The day he dies you’ll learn that you loved so hard, so deeply, so purely, that you will now grieve enormously because of that beautiful love.
The day he dies you’ll learn that he loved you beyond measure, the way only a father can. He loved you effortlessly and without end. He believed in you more than you ever believed in yourself. You’ll realize that you were always his baby and his responsibility, even as an adult.
The day he dies you’ll realize, without hesitation, that he was the most amazing man you’ve ever known and will ever know.
The day he dies you’ll appreciate him more than you ever have and you’ll pray to have him back. Unfortunately, no prayers can bring him back. No wishes can make him appear.
So when he dies, remember his smile, remember his love, and remember his life.
Never forget him and everything that he was because the day he dies, you become his legacy.
So real raw and perfectly described.
My dad died exactly 11 weeks after my mom just last year. He died of a broken heart 💔 and though mine is forever broken I love God’s promise that they are together in Heaven.
His passing tore a hole out of my heart that nothing has filled since, in the past 47 years!!!!!!
I lost my Daddy on Valentine’s Day in 2008. That day has a whole new meaning to me now! I still miss him every single day. 😞 Nothing is ever the same anymore without him. I have an empty place in my ❤️🩹 now that can never be filled again. I think about him every day and especially on Valentine’s Day. Since then I have lost my sweet Mama (2018) and my youngest brother this past January. Both of my parents died of Alzheimer’s, and my brother died of cancer. On the day he found out he had cancer he passed away that same night 30 minutes after he was taken off of life support. It was so sudden and surreal! I still can’t believe he’s really gone…💔❤️🩹😞
It will be a year he passed in July. My first Father’s day without him. He passed on July 23rd2022. His fourth book of poems is to be published soon. Bittersweet holiday for me.
That made me cry. I didn’t write it…. but every single word was relevant.