Did You

Father.
 
          Did you ever remember me
 
there        
                        when I was small,
    
              did the sky record
                  what you saw?
 
When I heard you speak  
 
              in low rumbles of thunder
                  before a storm,
 
did it ever occur to you  
    
            that I was painted on your clouds
                 before all this;  
 
that I was        
                        behind that door in
 
the eaves of your old house with the ancient dust.
 
That I fell      
                      from your heart when the wind blew.
 
                      Did you ever really know  
               I would fall like dust into your arms
 
When
        
                    you forgot I was waiting for you
               or would be, tomorrow, like yesterday
 
Father, did you know
 
                                        I waited forever for you
 
                             to come home.
 
                                .....
      
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