Fatherless

Where were you when I needed you most. To tuck me in, read me a night time story and get rid of the ghost?

Where were you when I took my first fall, when I needed to get back up & stand tall?

Crying out at night for the day when you come home & say baby im here.

To tell me that I had nothing to fear because you weren't going anywhere.

I had no love from you...Did you even care how this would affect me?

I think not, so now I am stuck in being another statistic in the world, as a young woman who falls into the arms of any man because the one she thought loved her let her slip.

Now I stand here FATHERLESS.

Feeling POWERLESS.

But nether the less, I once was FATHERLESS

Author's Note

Something Little

Reviews

[Aislinn]

This isn't as little as you might think. It is very powerful even to someone who has no emotional connection the the narrator at all. I have no idea what it feels to be fatherless. But I will say that it did touch me and make me think. And that's not always easy for me to get from poetry.

[Poetically Driven]

Thank you.

[kayla]

This is really good. I love the subject matter because it's deep and controversial and those are always my favorite. The only thing that I think would make the poem better is stanzas because then the rhyme scheme would be easier to follow, but that's just my personal opinion.
Thanks for sharing such a deep poem, and keep writing. Keep your head up(: