a man like him

i feel sorry for all the girls and also the boys

who grew up without a good father

because i have the absolute best one

and i am so sorry to them for that

i am sorry that my dad has been fantastic

i am sorry that he makes sure there is money in my pockets

when i don't have any

i am sorry that he came to my softball games

and that i always played poorly because i knew he was watching

i am so sorry that my father cried when i left him at the airport

to go live in France

and i am sorry that it made me not want to go

i am sorry i left you there daddy

i am very sorry that my dad never went to college

but he has worked harder than anyone i know, and better

i am so sorry that he paid for the majority of my college education

and i am also sorry that my father has been there

at my graduations and birthdays and triumphs and failures

i am not sorry that he has been spectacular to me

i am sorry though that you do not know him,

i am sorry if your fathers were not like mine

i am sure you deserve a man like him

in your lives

at some point

04.18.2012