Dear Father Poem by Jaymie Potter

Dear Father,
I don’t want you to come back
Please stay out of our lives
You crushed our family
It used to be perfect
Why did you have to find someone else
Were we not good enough?
Your face still burns in my mind
Its made me numb to everything else in my life
You took the angel out of me the day you left
Don’t expect me to forgive you quickly
Everything takes time
Who knows if I even will one day
This one might take a lifetime to heal
Just know I am not ready to face you yet.
I have gone without so many things
But a father was by far the hardest
I didn’t want fancy things
Only a father who loved me.
But you failed to give me that one thing
So now you no longer have a child
I’m moving forward and forgetting you
Now you will know at least some of my pain
So i will only gain, and someday feel less pain
From the fact that you were afraid
Of being happy with a child like me.
I hope that your new girl leaves you
i hope she makes you feel how I feel
Why can’t you see my brokenness
You just act like it was cool to leave.
Its only as cool
as the ice around your heart.