I Need REAL Love
I’m the spontaneous
COMBUSTION
Of a happy
But mad
Ugly but
Pretty
Stubborn
But cooperative
Little version of
YOU Daddy
You were the
Wind
Beneath my
Wings
You were the
Up when i was
D
O
W
N
You were my
Right
When I was
Left
You were 50%
Of the operation
That created this
Life
Behind these Words
But now we see differently
I’m no longer a seven year old
Let’s go to the dance daddy
Tuck me in and read me bedtime stories
Kiss my forehead
And tell me that you love me daddy
Wait
Why am I getting my ass whipped daddy? I thought you loved me
I didn’t do anything
Mama said that’s enough
I don’t quite know what you have me watching daddy but the girl and boy are naked and she seems like she’s in pain so why won’t he stop doing that?
And my 14 month old baby sister swallowed a penny while you were out smoking with your friends daddy You said you love her
I’m hungry and I need food daddy Love me and feed me
Your friend is just a little too close to me If you loved me you would do something
Daddy
But you said that’s uncle Gary and that he can touch me if he wants
And I trusted you
Because
You are
Daddy
Now I’m a seventeen year old
I know that I’m not yours Daddy
Tell me the truth
Get out of my face
I never want to see you again Daddy
Why’d you make me another statistic Daddy
$14.92
Leaving my mother to raise me by herself
Wheres the money Daddy
Why don’t you call Daddy
I know that you hate me
You said you loved me Daddy
That I was “Daddy’s Little Girl”
But remember when you
Tried to rip my last name from between my teeth Daddy
You said it’s not adoption if you were never my father in the first place
Love doesn’t make fathers say that to their children
Just because my face
Didn’t bruise
DOESN’T mean
You didn’t
Hit me
Daddy
Love doesn’t harm
I cried myself to sleep that night daddy
Tried to convince myself that you should have a presidential pardon from all of my values and ALL I could come up with was
Why the hell do I still believe in us. in the Hero image of my father bareback hard working man
But you know I finally realized
Daddy
That this “love”
Isn’t really love at all
That love is supposed to be a flowing waterfall so strong and beautiful that the world can’t seem to figure out what made it
Or why it exists
Love
Is
A bird soaring through the sky without knowing that it’s traveled past its destination
Love
Is
A wild flower eager to grow and show the eternity that in those few seconds of a bloom there’s a process creating life and peace
Everything you never gave