Of All The Things

Of all the things you ever did

Designed to piss me off

Dying on me is the worst I’ve thought

You got in trouble sometimes

I did too

We’d get back in the fray

That is what we do

I miss your macaroni salad

On a summer’s day

The names you gave my boyfriends

The silly things you’d say

My J.D. juvenile delinquent dad

Who loved Full Metal Jacket

The Godfather with a line out the door

Wisdom for all the people with a racket

Defending the accused all over town

The halls of justice

Seem empty without you

now…

You and your humor

Brought levity to the shade

You were a good man

Who did it his way

You are still with me

In the sunset at the beach

In the debates we still have

The things left to teach

You taught me to fight

And how to be strong

cited cases from your head

you were rarely wrong

I miss our adventures

the challenges you’d create

Waking up by 5 a.m.

so you could dictate

This person’s fate…

or mine

You’d push buttons all around

sometimes I’d fall in line

You often thought I was texting

But I was taking notes

the brilliance from your brain…

The things only you’d know…

I miss those talks

I even miss the strife

“It’s time to go to work”

Still rules my life

You’re wherever you are now

Maybe arguing with mom

Putting search and seizure law

Into your angels’ song

And I’ll be fine

Somehow I will

Because I know I was raised

By the toughest pill