It started as an apology
from a father to a son
for the times I wasn’t there when I should have been
and for the times I was there
when you needed to figure it out on your own.
I hope my diligence to have you do better
was never taken to mean you weren’t good enough.
For the times I didn’t say. ‘I love you’
when you really needed to hear it.
For the times when my silence
may have been mistaken as a lack of caring
when really I was scared
because I didn’t know how to help you.
For all the times that I was proud of you
but I never really learned how to show it.
That’s when I realized
this was more than an apology
from a father to a son.
It was also a note of forgiveness
from a son to a father.
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