without a father when daddy left we became welfare bound mama looked for him but he did not want to be found a better life is what my father sought the battle of poverty mama and i fought he never sent any money i dont understand why daddy never left a note or even told me good bye now i suffer without a father by my side the day he left my own childhood died teased at school because i received free lunch all ways alone never part of the bunch i hated school because the poor do not belong my hopes and dreams seem to be gone education means nothing when you have nothing to eat hard to learn when you believe you are beat a child should laugh, sing and play not worry and wonder at night where he will lay how will i forgive him for what he has done that coward that left me as fast as he could run my love for him is fadeing and soon there will be none from this child without a father his very own son