Dear Dad

by imHURTINinside   Nov 24, 2007


Dear Dad,

Have you ever noticed the way I've been shaking lately?
The three knives missing from the kitchen?
How I never come outside my room anymore?
The look in my eyes?
The sound of my voice? It's completely different.
Have you noticed the long sleeves & sweatshirts everyday?
The arm warmers?
The band aids?
The blood on my sheets?
Huh? Have you? No? I didn't think so anyways..

Well, Dad

Your perfect little girl failed most of her classes.
Your perfect little girl yelled at you last night.
Your perfect little girl talked back to you again.
Your perfect little girl painted her nails black.
Your perfect little girl lied to you all her life.
Your perfect little girl cries herself to sleep.
Your perfect little girl slits her wrists till she bleeds.
Your perfect little girl dated before sixteen.
Your perfect little girl was broken by a boy.
Your perfect little girl doesn't go to church.
Your perfect little girl hates you.
Your perfect little girl has given up on life.
Your perfect little girl had a tantrum today.
Your perfect little girl wants to run away.
Your perfect little girl has no real friends.
Your perfect little girl thinks shes horrible.
Your perfect little girl hasn't let you dry her tears.
Your perfect little girl disobeys you.
Your perfect little girl hates the world.
Your perfect little girl is hated by the world.
Your perfect little girl says bad things about you.
Your perfect little girl is very unhappy.
Your perfect little girl tried to commit suicide.
Your perfect little girl has become a disgrace.

Don't worry, Daddy, at the end of every day I'm still your perfect little girl.

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  • 18 years ago

    by pLeASeTakEMyHeArT

    It's so hard, deadbeat fathers and I mean, some girls are lucky have a good dad and some r have a horrible father. But don't put yourself down for him, don't let yourself died in him. Sometimes, dad are just so blind, so deaf, not so open. You can be stronger, just be his little girl doing right thing. I totally feel you cause my father was NEVER around me, never LOVE me or either neva try to be a DAD and I am still happy because I don't let him put me down. I went through so many things.. This is heart-felt sadness.

  • 18 years ago

    by pennylane

    I have letters to my dad exactly like this, tons of them.
    i know you most likely hate it when people try to relate to what your going threw/have been threw, but sometimes it helps.
    i know what its like to be so selfdistructive and how much it hurts that he doesnt notice. it kills you, you start to hate him, then yourself, if your own dad doesnt care why would anyone else? right? it sucks.
    i have all this anger built up against my own father for not seeing everything i was doing, the drugs, drinking, not giving a f**k, hating life, cutting, swalling as many asprin as i could (you would think 12 a day every day for a month would kill a girl), everything. i moved away from him for many reasons, this was a big one. i still come back and visit, infact im sitting on his coutch right now, and we still have the same damaged realationship.
    i wish i could tell you that if you just hold on he'll open his eyes and see, but im afraid that hes like my dad, and he'll never get it. i mean my dad saw me drink myself to the point where i should have gone to the hospital more then once and he still doesnt get it.
    all i can offer you is knowing that your not the only one, and its not your fault, its his, for being blind to whats right in frount of him.
    best of luck with your life, hopefully you'll do better then me.

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