I awoke to the crashing sound of thunder,
outside my window, I stared, placed with wonder.
The day was umbral and stormy, with no light in sight.
Cold sensations in the air, something didn’t feel right.
I searched the house, to find my Mom slumped on the floor.
She was crying and she swore that Dad left for that *****.
Emptiness filled me, and my eyes darkened with detest.
My “father” cleaved her heart beating from her chest.
When he left, he abducted something from me.
He robbed my sister’s opportunity at having a good father.
For that, I love him no longer
and hope that when he is dying no one bothers.
He robbed my mother’s peace and love
and left her doubting the realness of above.
I hate such a coward and wish that he could die a thousand deaths;
I pray that his existence would collapse as he loses his last breath.
He ruined our lives and set them in disarray,
fraying our world as soon as he left our driveway.
However, when he departed, he also replaced.
He left my mother with destabilizing depression,
he left my sister with a skepticism of man’s impression,
he left myself with a lack of self, with no exception.
For the one who takes, loses in turn.
For his life, I wish to burn and burn.
March 26, 2017: This one is about what I felt the day that my father left us. Since then, life feels like someone reassembled parts of a shattered mirror, with most of the pieces there, but the cracks from the previous trauma still clearly visible. For a while, the typical happened and I ended up blaming myself, luck, God, and everything else in search of closure and healing. It didn’t work as expected. It still doesn’t work.