How am I supposed to know what to say,
When you're so impossibly hard to read?

thanks for leaving home dad.

things are better since they
were
bad.

had a rough time adjusting to walking in new shoes

but you've taught me so much now. and I wanted to thank you.

thanks for leaving home dad

I'll know to turn the lights out
it wastes too much electricity
too much energy

expended on something
unneeded.

I'll learn to not need you.

thanks for leaving home dad

I'll know not to leave the front door unlocked or the screen door open.

cause someone could just walk right into your home

walk right into your home
your life-
and hurt you.

now I'll be safer.

thanks for leaving home dad

now Ill know not to leave a friend
by themselves
if they're having a hard time

because I know it was hard to have no one to lean on
when needed em most

I'll be there for them.

thanks for leaving home dad.

now I'll know when to leave a relationship

see most times you stay
and you hope against hope
that they can change
but I've learned you cannot change anyone but yourself.

I can be happy alone.

thanks for leaving home dad

now I've learned to love myself
and to never lose myself
tie myself up into knots
and undo myself

everyday isn't the same
but I add another link to the chain

hey-
I just wanted to say
thanks,
dad.

Here and there,
His hands bare,
Touching her
Beneath her skin,
A new story begin...