FATHERHOOD GONE AWRY!
Father's very strict, mother's very weak
Beatings too harsh for a daughter of only 3
You wished that I had died Daddy
You even said it out loud
but i loved you anyhow
Forbidden to walk on the carpet
I was just not good enough
I've tried to fulfill your wishes Daddy
Fifteen times I tried somehow
I ran under buses, in front of cars even.
I took hundreds of pills Daddy
I tried to cut my wrists,
Just to try to make you happy
Why didnt they work Daddy?
You never came to see
Why am I still here?
If only you had shown me
the love that I so richly deserved
My life would have been more content
and the men in my life would not
have continued the patterns you set
END
Rosie Vallack Mor
Sat 14th Jun 2014 10:55
This is a really elegant mix of emotional rawness and a telling which has a distance emotionally. This piece really affected me and gathered me in. All good things, Rosie