Respect

A Poem by Courtney Caddiwampus

Father one thing you don't have

Your voice grates on my nerves

Never have I heard a voice

That I hate so much

Its almost painful

You ask why we love our mother

So much more than you

So obviously hate you

Its easy to see

Your only a b*****d

Its true

Repeat your self all you want

Go on a tirade about our disrespect

In the same sentence

That you preached this

You told me

To leave the house

Get pregnant, live under a bridge

That it would all be okay

As long as I didn't come back

You spoke these words

As you attacked my brothers with a bat

You claimed he “pushed” his face into your fist

That he started the fight

Yeah

Cause a man who can't use his hand

Is likely to do that

Right after sugary

Knocked up on morphine

He's really likely to do that

You put words in our mouths

So you can get mad

And attack us

Like some kind of

Wild, savage beast

All we ever do is wrong

When we say please and thank you

Its never enough

Never enough

We don't say it to your satisfaction

We get hit

Cause we were oh so wrong

Never praised

Only acknowledged for our faults

whether they are there or not

Cause thats the way you raise a child

Its never your fault

Its always ours

It takes two to Tango

You lead I follow

Please don't try to be a parent

Thats one thing you'll never be

Don't try to be mommies husband or lover

There you never succeed

It being married means being treated like that

If the sayings true

And daughters marry men like their fathers

Then I can say

No hesitation

That I will never be married

Ever

I will make it law

And sign it in blood

No regrets

Please

We all know

All but you

Open up your eyes and see

All our problems

Come from you

© 2009 Courtney Caddiwampus

Author's Note

It was this song I was listening to in the room over (no wall beetween the rooms(he could hear it)) when he attacked my brother ( who can't use his hand and had just come home from the hospital (his tendon in his fingure was snaped and he had just had surgery a few days ago, he got his cast of today and it is easy for it to snap, it that happens he won't be able to use it again(it was on his dominate hand)))
Adema So Fortunate Lyrics:
I never thought I was strong enough
To handle raising my own son
You'll always fear what you've never done
I hope he'll know me when I come home

Nothing gonna change
My love for you

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I love my child
He's got his mother's smile
I'm so fortunate so fortunate
Life can get tight
But I will make it right
I'm so fortunate so fortunate

I had to learn what meant more to me
My family's became everything
I miss you more than you'll ever know
I wish that I could just leave go home
Lyrics: So Fortunate, Adema [end]

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