Hello dad

That is an old poem Written by Aldo Kraas

Listen to the words of this song I wrote just for you

I sometimes question myself what are the things that I have from you

I don’t have much from you

Just some old paintings and some Persian carpets

Nothing else

I never had the chance to say good-bye once more to you because I was too young to understand what death really was

You never called me back anymore, because you didn’t want to frightened me about the hospital and you didn’t want me to have seen you hooked to machines

I left home to start a new life

And to have a new chance to be somebody in life

I don’t remember much of you because you died after I left

I don’t know why you didn’t want me to have a better life and just sit around and be a vegetable

For the rest of my life

I left it anyway, because I needed a new life, a new meaning in life

An opportunity came, and I went ahead and moved to a better place where others treat me like a human being, not like an animal

Don’t you see that my life back home was worthless, because there was nothing for me and I could tell you that straight to your face?

It wasn’t life; it was just like rooting away in a cage like an animal

It was not reality but fantasy

If I had stayed back home, what life would I have today?

My life today is a happy one

I am somebody today

I am not rich in money, I am rich in spirit

I don’t live the life of the rich and famous anymore, today I just live a simple life

The luxuries I had before, I will never be able to afford than anymore

Today I found the new meaning in my life for me after all the things that I experience in life

I have the true understanding about death because I had to face it so many times