I can wait no longer

I can see now

This boy needs me

His father could never prove

For useful guidance

But perhaps I can change all that

A fool and a coward

Some things never change

Maybe some day he'll listen

Where his father never did

A past so lost and broken

Every piece of the puzzle

Gone but one

And that one is truly gone to

I cannot remember what living

Feels like any more

I will provide my strength

All that I have

To change now what I couldn't change then

To save the offspring

Of the one I once swore to protect

The one that I failed

On my life

That isn't there

I will not fail again

It isn't in me to do the same thing twice