The Other Way

I'm only at the spot I find myself today

Because I thought that things would go the other way

Two decades tending devil dogs

A mill spawning lots of linkin logs

To build your dream home

Life has pitfalls and stumbles

The cookie always seems to crumble

But it tastes just as sweet

Piece by piece

As it would if it were whole

My powers underestimated

As I've previously stated

Think about if I had waited

Still I walk between two worlds

I'd be genuinely happy

To see you in love and so sappy

Saddened when life gets so crappy

Forced to sit back as it unfurls

Wishing that I had more skin in the game

Wishing that you were my kin with my name

Everything else would mostly be the same

And yet be so different

Brown hair and blue eyes, singing Dad's songs

Warming their lovely bronze skin on the lawn

Wishing our chance for that wasn't long gone

But it's oh so distant

I see you, sitting there

Taking care, babysitting my brainchild

My imagination grows so wild

And you calmly let it face the sun