Barely assertive

Except when mad

A closed book

Short of acknowledgement

Your love blanketed me

Armor surrounding

Shielding me from all bad

Even from a distance

Inadequately expressing my love

Sometimes taking for granted

That you knew how much

How could you not

Conversations short and sweet

But emotions understood

A daughter of which you could be proud

I am not now nor ever would be

As 9/11 approaches

I remember

Fear, terror, and shock

Deaths of faces I never knew

Two years later

That very same day

A new death took reign

And that face was you

As the nation remembers

And media airs

9/11 echoed constantly

I shall pray for those who’s

Loved ones perished

To terrorists inhumane

But deep inside I will also

Be yearning for the love of you

I miss you dad

And if you can see this

I love you too