Not Yourself Poem by Allysyn Bryant

Your words cut me just like a knife. So deep that it hurts, cuts my heart in two. But I say, who are you? You lecture me on how I should love someone. How could you when you don’t even love yourself? At least I can love myself, and with pride too. You complain that I never loved you like you love me… But tell me this, how do you expect me to love you when you don’t? You waste yourself away on everything that you’ve done wrong and lost that you forget that you still have a daughter that wants to love you. A daughter, which you seem to have forgotten, yet again. You left when times got too hard. Fine, whatever. But when I go to give you another chance you end up throwing it in my face. What the hell did I ever do to you? What did I do to deserve this from you? You, my father, my daddy when I was little. Well guess what daddy? I’m not little anymore. And I’m just about tired of you.

December 1,2008