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Daddy's Gone

May 8, 2013
By Anonymous

Sitting on the couch drinking
Screaming in my face drunk
Towering over me like a little ant
Gone

Screaming from the living room
Glass breaking
Mom crying
Gone

Worthless..no good..dumb
Words that hurt so bad
The look in his eyes
Gone

Eight bottles a day
Vodka, whiskey, jack Daniels
What he chose over me
Gone

Seventeen years old
Not a clue of who he is now
Eleven years passed
Gone

Kidneys failing
Laying in the hospital bed
No hope for him
Gone...

© Anonymous

The author's comments:
This is a personal piece I wrote when I found out how bad my biological fathers alcoholism really is.
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