Storybook Knight (UNFINISHED)

It was a story-book of innocense

A world of rainbows and laughter

And blue alabaster skies

And you were always near

Every time I'd shed a tear

A child just cannot see

The horrors of reality

We see with blinded eyes

Blinded by our innocense

Believing it will never change

Rain is only rain

And rainbows always follow after

And every fear

Of darkness or of dreaming

Were sheltered by your arms

How often I would cry

"Daddy, daddy!  Come and save me!"

And never would you fail

To come and rescue me

Still storms blew in

And lightning filled the sky

I couldn't understand

How you could ever die

My knight in shining armor

The hero of my story-books

His face was always yours

And when I closed my eyes

You were always near

Life is not kind

Not to a child too young to know

What pain is, grief is, how it feels to be alone

And still I cried for you

When the shadows came at night

When right all turned to wrong and you were gone

And for the first times, not the last times

You did not appear

Though I cried,

"Daddy, daddy!"

I know that you would never hear

And your arms

Were no longer near

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And still in dreams, I'll see you

Just how you used to be

And your promise is the same then

As it used to be

"I will never leave you.  And someday I'll meet you.

Just inside heaven's gate."

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Years they passed so slowly

 Feeling lost out in the dark

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(I know)Though there may be times

When I will have to cry

"Daddy!  Daddy!"

I know that You will always hear

And Your arms

Will always be near