Dear Father

Dear  Father  -  Defeater

Bury  him  in  the  cold  wet  ground.

Familiar  faces  would  have  made  him  proud.

The  military  and  the  working  man,

The  history  of  the  life  he  lived.

“Can  you  feel  that  soil  covering  your  coffin?”

Can  you  feel?    

So  what  are  you  going  to  do?

Be  the  hero  that  your  father  was?

So  what  are  you  going  to  do?

Be  the  man  he  made  you  to  be?

And  you  are  your  father’s  son.

Dear  father,  dear  father.

Be  the  hero  that  your  father  was.

Be  the  man  he  made  you  to  be.

The  war-torn  stories  that  he  told  you

You’ve  got  a  hell  of  a  lot  to  live  up  to.

An  airborne  man  with  a  scar  and  wound,

“Never  make  a  promise  that  you  can’t  prove.”

Dear  father,  dear  father.

So  what  are  you  going  to  do?

Be  the  hero  that  your  father  was?

So  what  are  you  going  to  do?

Be  the  man  he  made  you  to  be?

And  you  are  your  father’s  son.

Dear  father,  dear  father.

Be  the  hero  that  your  father  was.

Be  the  man  he  made  you  to  be.

“Where  are  you?  Where  are  you?

You  coward.  You  coward.”