For Daddy

Hey, Fam, life has a way of making you stop in your track sometimes.

And today was one of those days for me.

A poem came through me. Sharing it to help you in need it. ❤️

TRYING TO PROTECT ME

(written the day after for daddy)

so…

i forgot you died yesterday

like a blink of my curious eye

something

it turns out

i also inherited from you

my heart is yours too

daddy

and i beg you

to please charge my forgetfulness

to all four chambers of my heart

my aortic valve

left and right ventricles too

life

as its prone to do

bumped the day you left us to the end of the line

or is it time

seconds melt into minutes

minutes become hours

hours shift into days

and days

transform

into years

six of them

i’m so sorry i forgot the day

we lost you daddy

please blame it on

all four chambers of my heart

my aortic valve

left and right ventricles too

like you

my heart

is only

trying

to

protect me.