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A Night For Bourbon

Written by Esteban Hernandez

 

Twenty years since you’ve been gone

Same today after so long

You still remain in my brain

Your tiny voice, your precious face

Only hours on this earth

Today your death, and your birth

How can hours last for years

Minutes stretched, drenched in tears

Still tonight just like that day

Nothing changed since you went away

Then my seed now seed am I

Gone so soon, we can’t ask why.

Decisions made, a life of pain.

But still too early, gone again.

A day or two, maybe more.

But gone you are, here no more.

 

We have regret, I know I do.

Could never say, I forgive you.

You did your best, all you knew.

No one knows, what you went through.

Now regret, resides right here.

The thing that I, always feared.

I should have said, what was right.

But I fought, what was inside.

Now here I am, so far away.

I forgive, no chance to say.

So for all time, when we speak.

In my dreams, I will repeat.

That I forgive you, everything.

Far from perfect, human being.

No matter what, in my heart.

You will live, while we’re apart.

Always my mother, gave me life.

I’ll always love you, no more fight.

So on this night, a night of pain.

 

I need a drink, to erase the blame.

It isn’t God, it isn’t fate.

There’s no one left, for me to hate.

A glass of bourbon, probably two.

I raise my glass, cheers to you.

 

Text © Esteban Hernandez

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