Your Best

alternatively titled "Screw off dad" but that's not very poetic so

They say it takes a village to raise a child

and that makes sense because if it had just been you

I'd be ruined by now.

You filled my head with garbage

that took years to undo

but it still plays in the back of my head

like a horrible record infecting my mind

maybe it's a "do as I say, not as I do" situation.

I guess you did your best, but why couldn't you do more?

Your "best"made me feel like I wanted to die.

Your "best" said that everything I did was wrong

So forgive me if my "best" option is to leave

and then maybe I can forgive you for trying