Dear father...

Dear father,
I wish I could tell you
how much I loved you.
I wish I could spend
another day just listening to you.
I wish you held a little longer
to see me do all you expected me to.

Dear father,
I wish, with my priorities
I could compromise.
I wish, for my sins
I could apologise.
I wish I could see
the divine in disguise.

Dear father,
Spare me another moment,
to see you again.
Listen to your voice,
and groan in pain.
Aah! to tell you that
your departure has gone in vain.

Dear father,
All your memories,
I do revive.
Only if with them
even you could survive.
If somehow I could
lure you back to life.

Dear father,
Your fate might not let you stay
in this temporary carnival.
But someday, we will meet
among the white lilies,
in a world purely celestial.