What I Leave You

What I Leave You

Here I am

Reminiscing 

More years behind 

Than there are ahead

What will I leave you

When I'm dead?

Footsteps swept away

Surf and sand

Or paths worn down 

Take you by the hand

Showing a way

To the promised land.

Northwest Ohio

Homegrown pain

Green grass growing

In a Spring rain

Bare feet stomping

Water

Down a storm drain.

What I Leave You

When I'm gone

Visions of happiness

Written in a song

If only the words

Could hold you 

Like a melody

All my own

Love will be my legacy

When you are all alone.

There you are

Manhood

My two sons

I remember

You growin’

In your mother's womb

Wonderin’

What life would be

With your eyes wide open

In a brand new world

That's what I Leave You

My sons

Memories and moments

In the sun.

Northwest Ohio

Homegrown pain

Green grass growing

In a Spring rain

Bare feet stomping

Water

Down a storm drain…

That's my dream

What I Leave You

When I'm gone.

D.A. Wittler

12/9/25