Sister

Sister’s daughter, so fair and lovely, Bubbling with a crown of jetblack graceful tresses, A striking resemblance to sister’s own childhood many years back When she had cried waiting at the doorstep Because of the late trishaw which meant An uneasy morning kept outside the classroom. Then our ego boosting competition, me at 10 and [...]

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Daughter Looking To Be Found

well i hope you know that i dont love you anymore and i hope you know that i’m so glad i moved out cause you said you loved me but i knew it wasn’t true so now i scream aloud that i hate you so don’t hug me cause i don’t feel the care don’t [...]

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My Worst Fear

ONE DAY MY DAUGHTER TOLD ME, SHE WAS HOOKED ON CRACK COCAINE, MY WORST FEAR CAME TRUE, AS I WONDERED WHO WAS TO BLAME. LOOKING AT HER SKIN AND BONES, I KNEW SHE WAS NOT LYING. SHE SAID, THE COCAINE HAD HER HOOKED AND THEN SHE STARTED CRYING. SHE TOLD ME WHAT SHE DID FOR [...]

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Life…

why should life show so many hardships when you think you up you alway’s seem to come down. when you be ahead something come’s and to you knock behind………….. i wonder will things get better or will i fail. i have so much to live for and so much to loose. my daughter well-being depend’s [...]

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Generations

Big Mama only Wore muu-muus, And smoked harsh Camel cigaretts. She never cared For me, becuause My mother Was the good daughter, The one who Didn’t really Need her, Or hurt. But my Mama Was the one Who cared for her Until she died. She was the Good Daughter Who needed Her Mama. I think [...]

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Another Year

Forty three. I have noticed, regardless of intent, not much seems new to me. My daughter, twenty one months, delights daily, nay hourly in discovery. Forty three. Its a station nowhere. A pre-midlife mellow wearing halcyon shields of securities illusions. My setting foundations a little weathered, I view youthful indiscretions with just a peak over [...]

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A Letter to My Daughter Christine

To many miles apart are we now can i say i’m sorry anyhow yesterday we talked about what happened words were said, that should be tossed away years ago in a far away day when you both came over to stay Jimmy is gone now, but your still here so we have today, yesterday is [...]

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As long as you remember

He said sadly, I have a hole in my heart I said, I know He said, It feels like a piece of me is missing I said, Me too He said, She’ll never get to know my daughter See her grow up like she did with yours I said, She could be watching us still [...]

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As Long As They Do It To Themselves

Unhappiness is getting me down, reading of this man in an Austrian town keeping his own daughter hostage in a dark cellar for so many years – and though common sense says, leave them to their own choices, I still have to ask – how could it have happened? I cannot understand, people say just [...]

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The Old Sugar Daddy’s Woman

It isn’t for love she is with him the ageing and bald headed Stan But to his money she is surely attracted and money in her eyes makes the man A blond in her late twenties and quite attractive and he has turned seventy four But money to her is what matters and he is [...]

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