Dad, Since You Left

It has been six months since you left.

Yet it feels like yesterday.

Yesterday when you were fit and full of life.

Yesterday when we were told the news.

Yesterday when you had control of it.

Yesterday when it was terminal.

Yesterday when you took your last breath.

Yet today there is no you. 

Where are you Dad?

Time has stopped for no one.

There are no second chances. 

No opportunities to turn back time.

To put right what feels so tragically wrong.

It cannot be true.

And I want to shake it off like this is not real.

They got it wrong. Dad is still alive.

Then I realise again, that you are gone.

But, you are so much more.

You are loved.

You are beloved. 

You are missed.

You are invincible.

You are Dad.