Where Is My Daddy?

I sit by the window
And watch the others play,
With their daddies on this summer day.

Mommy says
That daddy is gone
That I won't see him again
That I must be strong.

She cries a lot as she
Dresses me in black.
We go to place with lots
Of stones. Why isn't
Daddy coming back?

We watch a man
Put a box in the ground
And I hear crying all around.

Mommy won't stop crying
And I don't understand.
Where's my daddy ?
Why isn't he here to hold my hand?

Where is my daddy
When I fall off
My bike and skin my knee?

Where is my daddy
When I have a bad dream
And need someone to comfort me?

Where is my daddy
On my first day of
Second grade?

Where is my daddy
To laugh and eat
The burnt cookies I made?

Where is my daddy
To threaten my first date,
And to tell him he's in trouble
When he brings me home late?

Where is my daddy
On my graduation day,
Or to dance with my on
My wedding day?

Where is my daddy
To make my fears go
Away?

Where is my daddy?
I've grown up
Without him there,
And yet I still don't understand
Why he had to leave.
Didn't he care?