Something Like A Dad... Poem by Denise Marie

Since I came into this world so foul,
I had to tolerate the actions in which you display.
Though thay may deprave me, I acknowledged the fact that you were something like a Dad.

Although you've missed birthdays, graduations, && precious broad moments lost-which left my heart crippled, w| yet only a few veins left to rust...You were something like a Dad.

Even after all the tears that I shed.
After mom was almost killed by that oblivious knife which held her in captivity, && tears flowed down the warmth of her cheeks, as she took what she thought would be her last breath... && I was almost taken away...
You were something like a Dad...

When I was six years old, speaking to you on the phone after so many months of waiting...Crying out like an infant who's hungry and hasn't ate for days...Begging to see you, wanting my father by my side... Yet left w| nothing after so long... as the days pass it gets back to being how it was...No father to lean too... Despite that you were something like a Dad...

This ongoing complex situation between us...
Like a competition to win what's rightfully mine && should remain in the midst of all years ahead...

Because since I was born, you were something like a dad...

Meaning nothing...