Who Would Have Known? I traced your missing father by phone, For your forty-eighth birthday. At that time, who would have known That you'd both be gone today? Birthday fifty I was such a sneak. A party full of surprise - Tickets to see your Dad in Dawson Creek I still remember the tears in your eyes. You were already dying When you turned fifty-two My fear was underlying, It was cancer, but who knew? You never made it to fifty-three By then my heart had turned to stone. I've heard life has no guarantee But I never would have known. Today you would be fifty-eight And through the pain I've grown. I've moved, remarried, accepted fate But really, would have known? ©2008 Christine Raymo (Didi) April 17, 2008