Dear Dad,

I love my dad but he has anger issues. I wrote this after one of his..."episodes".

Will things ever change?

Will this ever end?

Because I'm tired of this s**t.

And I'm too tired to pretend,

That everything's okay.

Because I know it's not.

And don't you dare say that you're sorry,

You didn't mean it, or any other lie you've got.

You've already promised things would change.

But it's just another promise you didn't keep.

You won't believe how many nights I spent,

Just crying myself to sleep.

Because it's like each time we got you mad,

I was once more failing you.

Now I'm angry, hurt, and hopless,

And I don't know what to do.

I mean, I've done my very best

To try and keep you happy.

But I know things will never work.

We'll never really be a family.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Amy Bumpas]

Great thoughts and feelings...very powerful, and the words are felt.
I can relate to this poem...