Worth It

I think I want to you to know
Everything is fine just so
and your transgressions of long ago
Are no longer bound to me.

Like you I've turned my back
on the grief and personal attack
My sanity kept fully intact
My present here and my future ahead.

I will not take without return
From my mistakes I will learn
Waste not love, time never to burn
I will savor it all and squandor nothing.

I'll let you leave with shame
I'll rid myself of your name
As a father you were so LAME!
I will never be like you!

But yet in the quiet of night
When everything feels "right"
The disappointments I still fight
And I struggle with unaswered questions.

Was it an easy decision to make
To stand up with nothing to take
From the family you failed to break
And walk away?

Did you need for something more
An appealing offer in store
If you had the courage to ignore
And walk away?

Were we not good enough?
Was she not good enough?
Was anything ever good enough
For you to walk away?

Your words were hard
Luckily bruises never scarred
But yes, a bit of happiness was marred
After all.

But I am grown, I have sown,
I am never alone
And the child you decided to leave
Is full of faith and ready to believe.
For she is strong, though sometimes wrong,
Her list of loves is immeasurably long
And she has chosen to forget
Your trail of lies and discarded regret.
The son she will raise
Will only know better days
And he will never suffer or see
All the things you did to me.
He will only know love, he will only know peace
Everything in the world I'd give, at least.
If there's nothing left to give,
There is still this life I live.
If only to spare his from pain,
This choice would not be in vain.

So you see what you did teach?
For him, nothing is far from reach.
The promises to me you did breach...

But it was worth it.