Seventy-Seventh Birthday

In July of 2013, you died and you went to Heaven.
If you hadn't died, today you would've turned 77.
After taking chemotherapy for months, you died.
You were a good provider and that can't be denied.
When a parent dies. it's always tragic and very sad.
If you were still alive, I'd say "Happy Birthday, Dad".

[Dedicated to Charles F. Johnson (1947-2013) who died on July 13. 2013]