A Child's Tears

A burned out house, is gone forever
A broken doll, is thrown away
A child’ tears, Will forever fall

Answers never came to her
She was too young to understand
Why daddy had really gone
Why he would not be back again
She never knew what drinking was
Just something mommy said daddy did
When he came home falling down
His world spinning round
Every night mommy screamed
Daddy would scream right back
Soon he would slam the door
On his way to drink some more
Every night mommy cried
How she longed to make it right
There was nothing she could do
But share her tears with her

She thinks she might understand
What led her father to the bar
He was a hopeless dreamer
Who found the bottom of his dreams
He did not possess the courage
To build a new foundation, and dream again
So he slipped and fell into a bottle
Where he found he couldn’t swim
Her mother was escaping
From a life she never wanted
Impetuously she rode his wagon
She was there when he fell off
She picked him up
Dusted him off and sent him on his way
She did not know how to love him
But was too young to be his caretaker

So in some sad way
Neither won, they both lost
Never realizing the cost
Or its effect on their girl
Lost in their own misery
They never noticed
Their child’s tears