When I was just a child of two
you left to sail the sea.
You couldn’t stay around, it seems,
to help with raising me.
As years passed by and I grew tall
I saw you now and then,
and listened as, with glowing eyes,
you spoke of where you’d been.
You always made a place for me
you were so strong and good.
You never spoke your love for me
but it was understood.
You taught me all the things it took,
you made me understand…
from you I learned just how it’s done;
just how to be a man.
It seems like only yesterday
you lived your final day.
With courage, peace and dignity
you left to pave the way.
But, I see you in your children;
they’re images of you.
I see your smile and gentle ways
in everything they do.
So, you’ve not left me, brother
you’ve never sailed away...
you’ll live within my broken heart
until my dying day.