Confessions of an alcoholic

An eight year old girl with a perfect life;
A daddy, three daughters, and a beautiful wife.
An eight year old girl who never wanted it to change,
Sher life started to rearrange.

Her mom and her dad started to fight,
She'd lay in her bed and listen each night.
Her parents divorced and they moved out,
She never understood what the fights were about.

Her dads best friend had later died,
Her dad, her mom, and her sisters all cried.
Her dad became a alcoholic, and hit her mom one night,
She watched the policeman drive him out of her sight.

Her mom moved her away from her dad,
In hope to run from the life they now had.
Her dad called, the girl hated him so,
More then he could ever know.

Four years has past, her dad came around.
What a great man inside, she later found.
She got a phone call late one night.
Her daddy was killed on a work site.

She never told her dad how much he meant to her,
Now she sits in a life's blur.
Understanding his point of view,
Stuck in the life she once knew.