Sadness - Part One

One phone call, that's all it takes.

My Daddy is gone. Just like that, everything changes forever.

How could something leave such a gaping hole? And, yet it does.

Trauma, on top of grief, on top of sadness.

I hear his voice in my head.

I was proud to be his daughter standing in the line as nearly a thousand people came through with their stories and kind words.

I had just said to somebody recently, "I am my father's daughter."

Yeah, I am.