Footprints

I'm sorry, i shouldn't need to remember,
About that painful December.
I love you with all my heart,
But it's time my thoughts of you should depart.

I'm saving my strength for my family,
I must leave Amalie.
Your death was painful for everyone,
But my life has just begun.

Time slips through my fingers,
Day by day it lingers.
No matter what i'm doing i think of you,
What is wrong with me, why am i always blue?

You were my father,
You were taken just like my brother.
That night three years ago,
You walked out in the snow.

But you never came back,
All that was left was one track.
We never found your body,
I cry every night by the bed you used to call shoddy.

I've seen your gravestone,
I look at it and i always feel so alone.
Sometimes at night i feel you watching me,
The temperature always drops a degree.

I walk around your favorite spot on the beach,
I remember you used to be just in my reach.
I look back half expecting to see two sets,
But a tear runs down my face as i see only one pair of footprints.