Time is my enemy
Laughing at me like a jackal:
I never learned
How to treat a woman
And never fathered a daughter.
I saw a woman I used to date
Embrace her child
At a Thanksgiving Day Parade.
I‘ll remember that picture
Until I enter the grave.
Uriah Hamilton
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/never-fathered-a-daughter/