Dad, Will you be my Friend?

Dad I know I've failed my friends and I've failed you
Dad I know I've made the wrong decisions too
Right now I just need you to be my friend
Please forgive me Dad, in the end

Dad, so many times I just keep letting you down,
Things start to go right, then turn right around
The pain in my heart is more than I can bear
Please forgive me Dad, if you care

Dad, my best friend from High School is dead and buried
And the pain in my heart is more than I can carry
Please Dad if--if I could just talk with you--
Please forgive me Dad, if you only knew

In the end I need to ask you Dad, Will you be my friend?
I need someone to talk to, before the end.

--bro. tim pickl, Saturday night, February 27, 1999 A.D.
   inspired by Dave Chapman's Suicide Letter  that Dave wrote in 1989.

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