Daddy's Girl

She makes me sad,

keeps her love

inside her head;

afraid to share.

Lives her life

for her Daddy dear,

not reality,

and she can't see

the Daddy she longs for

in her dreams;

never was,

nor ever will be.

 

He was more a man,

and less a saint;

than the picture

that she paints

inside her head.

 

Her Daddy's dead

for thirty years.

She's still searching

for her Daddy's clone,

not a man of her own.

 

No man can ever be

as perfect as

her dreams

of her Daddy.

 

Reviews

[Samuel Dickens]

There's some profound truth about human nature here. When an important part of our lives goes missing, we feel incomplete or maybe unfulfilled, and long to have it back. In our efforts to fill the void, we may even try to find it in places and things where it can't possibly be. We may imagine the missing piece was more wonderful or beautiful than it actually was, remembering only the good parts. Very well written and expressed, Geralyn.

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

touching ~relatable for many younglings who are now women and have had little more than photographs around which to construct a man who was to be their father~