Howdy,
I started handwriting this awhile ago, with inspiration from three songs off of an album that I recently bought.
The main character (unnamed) is actually inspired by the lead singer, but just with looks, voice, etc. Not the actual life of the singer.

Here goes...


He drove the spade downward into the ice, one break that was small. He knew she was watching him, he could feel her eyes upon him, and while he not often liked to be watched off-stage, it comforted him.
He looked back and saw her at the window, she smiled at him and his heart swelled.
Looking down at his tattooed hands while trying to break the ice in his drive way, he wondered how such a woman could love him the way she did.
She would never know how much she really did mean him.

Over the years he had gained and lost weight, though he still took pride in his muscularity. He certainly didn't have as much hair now as he did then, but she still looked at him the same way she did in 1985, she was of course, the same angel to him as she had been back in California, even if they did move to a place a little colder and a little more rural before the kids were born.
It was his son Joseph who broke his thoughts, as he came running passed, unphased by the ice.
"Hey! Watch where you're going before you fall." He said in a great audible tone.
"Sorry Dad, I forgot." His boy replied, looking sheepish and scared with that "deer-in-the-headlights" look.
"It's alright... Just get inside, and don't do any of that homework before I can help you" He smiled.
"Okay, thanks!" His boy smiled back, the fright fading from his face, before running off again.
He was going to tell him not to run, yet again, but the boy was in the house before he could.

He tried very hard never to scold his boy, he wanted to be a father and a friend, something he never was to his older daughter.
Melissa was so abandoned by him as she grew up, though he called and talked to her, and told her how much he loved her. He missed a lot of her life, school, plays, sports, birthdays, holidays, and even her graduation.
He knew he had been a "bad father" for her, even distant to her when he was at home, even if she denied it and constantly told him he was the "worlds' greatest Daddy".
A short time before they discovered of Joseph coming into their lives, he had promised to be a better man and a better father.