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To My Absent Son

By Carl Blessing/Murphy Slaugh

My Absent Son, it's been many months

Since I last saw your face.

Yet in my mind, I still see and still hear you,

Your memory I will not erase.

I think of my actions to try and help,

Though I may not see you again.

Did they give you the peace you deserve?

Or did I cause you more pain?

I still long to hug you once more,

And hear again your voice.

Know that my leaving you I had to do...

I really had no choice.

For the present, though you will never see

My apology so sincere and true.

Please know that deep in my heart and my mind,

I never meant to hurt you.

The thought of what happened still makes me cry.

The pain's almost too much to bear.

I want to curse something or someone,

For conditions that just were not fair.

But the only one I can blame is myself.

For actions that were my own.

I would have done something different that night,

If only the future I'd known.

Good bye for now, My Absent Son.

I pray that one day we'll meet.

That wish will remain in my heart,

And nothing on Earth will defeat.