Dear Daddy
Tumi When I was formed you looked forward to all times coming, I was born and you held me tight, fell in love like you were to marry me. Showed me how to ride a bike and warned me about fire. Carried me over rushing rivers and shielded me from those rainy days. I walked by you like shadow, but you still went astray, You put me in a home, that you shattered and turned into a house, invited scars instead of stars, took away the light and dimmed it into darkness. We moved... house to flats, suburbs to townships; I still loved you more and hated you less. You said you wouldn’t forsake and put your only daughter in danger. Though you held the words tightly in your hands, throttled and demolished your promises. I put hands together knees bent and asked God what it was and he said him. Oh daddy I prayed...I prayed you would practice what you preach, prayed you know, you would not get over me like rushing rivers over pillars, prayed, prayed you would know not to play with fire, prayed to God for HIM to shield us. Daddy I pinch myself at dawn debating on reality and dreams... How I so wish you were here, there and everywhere, to tell me that everything is fine. Take me on long drives to nowhere just to connect, How I so wish you could be in the driver’s seat of our family car. Be the man, the man id want my unborn to be, my future husband to see, how to treat your family...but with my faith in despair, ill pray for you to always be here, and tell me, you just admire me. Widget is loading comments...
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