Dear Daddy
I just wanted to thank you for making me the person I thought I could never be without you. Your leaving forced me to be independent and strong minded. When you left i didnt know what I would do but I made it. Straight "A" student with no question. It never ceases to amaze me that you've got eight girls and you left them all to get high on the streets, to sleep around with drug addicts,and to then become one. Then your reason became different for leaving us; you became an addict yourself and for us there seemed there was no emotion left. You came back once a year when you got tired of running the streets for all of two months and then you'd leave again. Leaving us devastated again. Mentality of daddy's and men broken again. Respect for the male figure at home shattered again. Our view of true love unfocused again. I never understood what you saw out there that you didnt see right here in your girls. To everybody else we were perfect but to you we were nothing. So I just wanted to say that I forgive you for being who you are; an addict with no morals and no clue about what it takes to be a daddy because you ran from the job. Thank you daddy for leaving behind so many scars on our hearts. Thank you for giving up on us for a quick high every night. The things you did gave me the best self-esteem in the world and yet it took everything in me not to hate you because of what you've done. Thank you for being a father and not a daddy.
Author notes
Of course its about my daddy.
A contest entry
- "If tomorrow never comes" by TwilightAngel026.
525 points, ended June 7, 2008, 17 entries
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i really like this poetry dis mae its really is good
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thank you baby
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oh wow!
This is probably one of the most heartbreaking emotional pieces I've yet to read on this site. I loved the brutal honesty in it and the unabashed emotions you put into it. I hope you let the man read it. He deserves to hear it, I think...Myself I don't really know my dad, but for other reasons, but I guess I can consider myself lucky because he was a drug addicted alcoholic in my early years and that is why mom kept him a secret from me until I was 19. Great honest write.
~mandie~
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Hardest thing to say
"So I just wanted to say that I forgive you for being who you are"... trust me friends this is the hardest things to do in life.. to forgive someone. I really really appreciate your courage to stand tall against the storms. What else should I say.. take care and God Bless You All..
Bro' Steve
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Wow, this is so sad and truthful. I will keep you in my prayers. God bless you dear.
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This was a very honest, and heartfelt letter. I really appreciate your entry to the contest, but I don't quite see the poem in it. Still ... great job!
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Being a girl without my father too i can relate to this and it was an excellent way to release your feelings. Excellent work
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