We met through a computer screen instead.
You learned my name the day after you left,
Taught me promises can never be kept,
That marriage means nothing over oneself.

You see her daughter more than you see me,
She lives in another country! Not near
Enough to hold her when she cries
Or replace a father, like you did mine.

You replaced an image with a blank spot,
A non-existent form of fatherhood,
As if your new wife’s daughter makes up for
Never being there. She is twenty-six,
She does not need a father figure now.

You got out of raising another kid.