Dear Daddy The Adulterer,how Could You Do That To Her? How Could You Do That To Me? For Years, You Abandoned
dear daddy the adulterer, how could you do that to her? how could you do that to me? for years, you abandoned us for that woman. you let my classmate, her son, know of the affair, but not me. you lied to us of what it means to love and be loved. you ruined our lives and everyone knows it, yet you get away with it nonetheless. there is no justice in the world for you still live in it. with no love at all, a daughter scorned
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i am hungry. perhaps i will starve.
i went to a bookstore
in search of the works of sylvia plath
through the shelves i sought her words
but i was met with nothing.
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to her work
she dedicated her life
as well as her suffering
yet she is not given the basic respect
of being remembered
nothing could anger me more than that.
i want nothing but beauty to spill onto this page yet i cannot. i am no brilliant writer i am merely a girl.
how much of us is left once we are dead? who we were is gone but what we are remains how much of us are our bodies made of?
some days i am overflowing with love and can do nothing but write of it. i draft these love letters with the most cliche of prose and long for you to read it.