Dad

This is a slam poem about how I feel and what I needed to let out.

Dad.
Where are you? Where have you been?
Coming home late every night, alcohol on your breath.
Watching you pick fights, beating mom til she wishes for her death.
You'd watch us struggle, never helped at all.
Where did your money go?
Never to your family, but to other women.
I was taking care of you since age three, and you couldn't even help me when I fell out of that tree.
Please father, put that bottle down.
See my pain. The pain that you caused.
From making me feel worthless,
And hopeless, so unwanted and lonely.
I'd try and try to make you happy and proud, just for you to push me back to the ground.
You never treated me with respect,
And you never seemed to care.
But how dare I roll my eyes,
Or even talk back.
Because of you, I am strong.
Not because I am your daughter, but because you treated me wrong.
Now, thanks to you, I trust no man.
Because, why should I? To get torn down in the end?
And how could I trust another man?
When I couldn't even trust the one who created me.
The one who showed me, people will even screw over their own family.
So thank you, dad.
For showing me that people aren't who they seem or claim to be.

Reviews

[Cara]

thank you for sharing
you are strong and unique and you are not alone don't ever forget that ,