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It's me Dad! Did you Forget?

October 7, 2021
By MelissaM31955 BRONZE, Detroit, Michigan
MelissaM31955 BRONZE, Detroit, Michigan
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2015: “Hey Mama, I just talked to daddy! He said he’s coming to see me in May, I hope it is true this time because I’m still waiting for my gift from last Christmas.”


2017: “Mommy, has daddy called you yet? He wants to come get me for the summer. He hasn’t answered any of my texts about that though…”


2019: Mom, He said that he was going to finally move back here… Should I believe him?


2021: “Mom… Why doesn’t he want me anymore?”


It hurts, celebrating Father’s day through a phone or sending me $300 on my birthday doesn’t make our relationship well known.

I have outgrown… from all of your lies 

and to the past, I have forgave. But, please listen because I will have no one to truly lift me up as you lay in your grave, so don’t let this time run out, you have to see who I have become.

My feelings are like a gun trying to release every bullet I have in me or like a drum trying and trying to stay on beat..

My mom apologizes whenever a tear runs down, 

I hope you can understand that I need YOU to fix my crown.


The author's comments:

Thsi poem made me relive all of my emotions growing up with my father and I’s relationship. I love my creative ideas; the timeline was a very emotional thing for me to write. 


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