How does One say Good-bye?

How does one say good-bye,

To the man who was always their hero,

The man who nurtured their soul,

He who taught them the deeper value in right and wrong?

How does a girl thank the man,

Who set the standard by which,

All men would be measured,

A standard she would hold even herself to?

How does one say good-bye,

To the man who removed slivers from fingers,

Dabbed skinned knees with stinging iodine,

And sealed them all with a kiss to make it better?

She doesn’t say good-bye,

She finds pieces of him in herself,

So much of the best of her,

She owes to him, her father.