Penny,
you knew fighting
this losing battle
would be no stroll
on a calm beach.
And daughter,
now you know
that to challenge Goliath
when you are David,
when you have nothing,
…feel like nothing…
and you have no wealth,
no allies, no power-
that it’s like a penny
challenging a million bucks!
But you know, too
when everything is gone
…everything is lost…
and you lose…
and you’re lost…
like I lost…
…you still win.
Because you are one-
one in a million,
my Penny…
Daddy-
did you know
that you lied?
Did you know-
what they know-
is a lie?
Did you know
that you died that day-
That day mom lied,
And you cried,
when she lied-
and she died.
Daddy,
did you know-
that they lied?
The lie they lied,
when they bit your pride
and made you decide
that life was now denied
because your soulmate died?
But let ‘they’ ride
to that negative upside
because you should know-
You should know, daddy-
That they lied that day
Giving up that day,
Lying down that day
That day; I cried-
When you died-
And you lied…