
THE CRY OF LITTLE CHILD – for daddy
Daddy, how do I begin to tell you of so
many things that happened to us?
You were taken so suddenly away
And all that was left off so fast.
Now we live in a tiny rented room
With a small light and a broken down bed.
Must all little children go through all
These hardships when their daddy is dead?
Daddy, if you only know we are hungry and cold.
We are so poor that all that was left had to be sold.
If you know we go thorough these, in a week the days are seven.
I am very, very sure it will break your heart in heaven
I know daddy, that you didn’t mean to leave us to fight alone.
I know you love us and gave us everything that you own.
I even remembered the months you had to work the nights.
So that mummy could have her oven and I, my glasses for my sight.
I love you daddy, even thought you are not ever coming back.
So does mummy for she cries every night before she hits the sack.
I don’t really mind all these hardships and missing some of the meals.
But I worry for mummy for she is very, very ill.
She washes clothes for the neighbor in the day and sews in the night.
Just so I can go to school for she thinks it is only right.
But I want so much to help her though I may be young and small.
I can wash plates, pull grass and maybe even earn 20 cents in all.
I don’t envy Patty even though she lives in her own home.
I comb my hair with a worn off brush, she with a fine tooth comb.
Though she knows no hunger and
She is warm and her clothes are refined.
I know, no one can have a better daddy and mummy like mine.
But now we all know, especially mummy and me.
For we suffer most as everyone can see.
But daddy, I don’t blame you for I love you so.
And I know you love us too and you did not want to go.
Yet daddy, it is not for us to say.
That is why mummy and I have to suffer today.
May all fathers know that their
Little ones need Life insurance protection.
So that they need no further want.
For their daddies too, not by choice may one day die.
Their mummies do not every night to cry.
And their little ones need not have to ask the questions,
“DADDY WHY?”




