This Is How It Could Be

A dolling day, on a rainy morning of May
You waltzed in, caught sight of that darling gal called Fay
She and you were all that was right
And you two were married alright  

Twenty years later, you sit
She's gone, and all you can do is cry in guilt
One drink after two, and there's no more to see

And it seems like you've forgotten all about me  

Three years after, I have grown-

On a beautiful morning of May, I wear a shiny blue gown

I looked for you everywhere, seeing if you kept the promise
Disappointed, I turned away with no goodbye kiss  

A year later, he came to me with one simple question

How 'bout a date over the beautiful River Tristan?

You said this day would come, to meet the other half
And you were right, he and I shared a pretty good laugh  

Come that same August, I brought him to lunch

You weren't happy, but you said you had a hunch

I told you I was in love, but you said it was just betrayal

You turned away, leaving me in tears. Just because he wasn't female.  

Two years greater, we shared a beautiful white day

You said you came, but I remember that same day, you were away

Somewhere off in Brazil, with some girl you met over a friend or two

I never met her, but I wish I had. Maybe I could come to care for her just for you  

I graduated about half a decade later

With a diploma for arts, and a few majors more

I have a daughter now, but you said she was troubled

Just because of her skin and of her short stubbled head  

You visited for her first year of life

But it wasn't too great when you brought out your belief

I was a disaster and so was he

She was something that just shouldn't be  

You left our yard with a bottle of whiskey

Stumbling into your car you told us that you would never return, without even the slightest goodbye

I took to it and wrote you every day, begging for forgiveness

I knew that I lost you, and you were sitting there in that old chair with your silly cowardness  

Four years after your departure, my daughter grew up with our love and care

While you still sat in that raggedy chair, eyes still filled with that hateful stare

We became lonely, and she asked questions about you

And how you were never around, giving us little to tell her that was true

She turned ten and we finally took her to that house

The one in which you still drank, the one that you closed

It lay rotting, it's wood moldy, it's structure falling away

We knocked on the screen door, the one that mama always answered with that beautiful smile that gave a sway  

You answered with a gray beard, your eyes sunk and tired

You weren't too well and I couldn't help but think how much you were wired

You asked about our visit, why we were here

We said you were here, so we were joined here  

You welcomed us inside for the very first time in the years of seventeen

The house was a wreck, but all the pictures not so dusty and clean

My mama still with that beautiful smile

The one that could make you dream for a mile  

You finally admitted your problems, you finally said you were sorry

You said your granddaughter was beautiful and how her pretty eyes were awry

We learned you were sick, we learned how you regretted the past years of twenty

She hugged you and told you it was okay, we were here now and would be for years of plenty  

Three years later, your grave was dug

Your bearing box traveling down into the ground, with it- our cries drug

How I loved you so

At least we said goodbye with woe  

When you greeted her, she told you that all was forgiven

We were left down here, wondering if you were in hell or heaven

Our question was answered when she became sick

The illness that was driving her to become more of a stick  

We cried and prayed for a heart, something that could cure

She was dying, and we were so sure

Finally she became better, of course her hair was back to a stubble

And we could feel you, your presence that surrounds us in a bubble  

She laughs and plays, she's had a broken heart or two

But because of you, she can have so many, and more to woo

You gave her a life, a life that you were so destined to say was wrong

And now you have repaired it, giving her one that's to be long  

I love you. I love you so much and I wish you weren't so stubborn

How I wish I told you to still love her, I should've sworn

It was difficult, how distant you were from our family

But now I don't regret anything, because even though you were late you are still here with quality  

The type that treasures a life, and one that is returned with grace

I still ask questions, of how your beliefs were that of long hace

Remember how you said that it was okay, no matter whom I loved?

Remember now that it was all a lie, when I told you that I wasn't with that girl you said I beloved?  

This a letter to you, yes you

Not a man off the street, this is the man that I said was You.

This is how it could be

You could be a man not of glee  

You could be instead a man of sadness and jest

You need to start being the man that is told to be the best

You must not be the man that my daughter is scared of

Instead you should be the man that she wants to love  

I am not yet fifteen, and Mama has just gone

I am saying that you are going down the road where you are told wrong

You will be gone, you only have so long

We could be family, that's up to you- are you up to get along?  

This is how it could be

Are you ready to be We?