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Daddy's Prayer
August 31, 2016
He crushes the stars in his hand.
He's never been spiritual or superstitious
and this is as close as he'll ever come
to making a wish.
His daughter would've said the moon
looked as though it could swallow them whole tonight.
But she is not there to say it,
so it does.
He spits curses into the sky
and hopes,
only hopes,
that she will turn out
better than he did.
© Tabitha B., Galesburg, IL
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TooLazytoLogin said...
on Dec. 21 2016 at 7:34 pm
This is a powerful poem revealing the desires of a father that even "crushes the stars in his hand," a father that's hinted to be abusive or too overbearing.
