Letting You Go

"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves."~Amelia Barr
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Daddy you left me
I’ve nowhere to go
I’m here with mommy
But it doesn’t feel like home
Who will raise me
Teach me as his own
Daddy, why did you have to go?
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Empty promises
Made in a sigh
What is the matter
Afraid of your lies
Growing up
Was never easy for me
You didn’t care
You took off and left me
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Hatred forming
For the man I know
It doesn’t matter
He has a happy home
Forced to struggle day to day
What about my tears that you never wiped away
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I was never good enough
I see it was true
Anger is building up
At the sight of you
At night I still cry
I want to be held tight
But where are you, daddy?
I’m losing sight
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All grown up now
A child of my own
I will be there for him
I’ve learned from parents of my own
I loved you, daddy
It took this long to see
I still don’t understand
Why you left me.
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Daddy you left me
I’ve nowhere to go
I’m here with mommy
But it doesn’t feel like home
Who will raise me
Teach me as his own
Daddy, why did you have to go?

Author's Note

A request from a friend, Sarah. Who wanted me to write a poem about when he dad left her, her brother and their mother. "He basically abandoned us."

Sarah, It may seem hard and the resentment you feel may never go away, but he has made you who you are today. Don't throw what you have away. Learn from him, that way you don't make the same mistakes.

Reviews

[Skateprincess]

Powerful words and a good poem, sometimes we may never learn from our mistakes and still end up making them again.
Eventually we do learn though, but conquering our hatred and resentment is a trial unto itself

[Naomi Roseღ]

I could really relate to this. I don't have parents either. Wonderful write :)

[Spiral Panda]

What Kim has spoken, it's a heart toucher.

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I know the feeling of someone leaving. I had an exhusband that just upped and left me why I don't know. He just left.
anyways you last stanza hit me hard. This write tugs at the heart strings.