Daddy Poem by Anuj Tikku

Daddy
The assurance in his presence
His healing touch, his caring ways
Remind me of by gone days
He kept me in check when I went out of line
But something happened and I went a stray
Causing my daddy much dismay
Dreams in my eyes of bollywood
I lost my way as only I could
With no rudders and no course
I was like a sea without a shore
Trying to swim with my own aspirations
Causing my daddy much perspiration
I lost sight of my goals and aims
Causing my daddy a lot of pain
The wealth he collected I squandered it all
As at that time I was thinking I was having a ball
What he collected I destroyed over time
Thinking it was not his but actually mine
But now he is no more to watch over me
And I am lost as only I could be
His life was being butchered away
While I was in Goa making hay
I was not beside him when he breathed his last
Now I am only left to weep over the past
He loved me like his cherished rose
I wish God had taken me instead it was him he choose