Eat your crumpled sweater
Drink sweat from in my mind
Close up all those new ideas
And still feel empty inside
Do not sit beside me
Do not claim my time
I've never had your gifts or treasures
But I'd give them up for empty rhymes
Open up my final will
And read between the lines
Or cross crooked through the origin of bellyaches and sighs
Heal my laughter
Ringing chimes
A thousand equals zero
And nothing that is mine
Who would know what started in sadness would finish like a bee in a bottle of wine?
Trying to tempt our ticking time
Gold and silver rusting

Today I crawled through a broken fantasy
And looked for light on every side
Do not say you'll try to love me;
we both believe you when you lie

i may not be strong
but every ounce of strength i have
i will use to hold you
as tightly as i can.

i may not be tall,
but i will take you higher than you have ever been
where there is no color, race, fear, or pain
and all is filled with beauty, love, and hope.

i may not have money,
but i am rich in love, and happiness, and soul
and i will share everything i have with you
each second i am by your side.

i may not have been whole,
but that was only because
i did not have my souls twin to complete me,
i had not yet found myself in you.

Daddy, I’m sorry!
All I ever wanted was to make you proud
But at the time it sounded like
The loudest voice was the crowds!
I left my virginity on the back seat of your car,
That night you went out.
And he told me that if I loved him
I’d go down.
So I did it.
I let him drive me insane
I did everything he wanted me to
Until he came, then pain came. Then shame came.
I did it and I wanted to tell you before
But I didn’t know how,
I’m sorry dad.
I’m still a child, I can’t be a mom!
I still have dreams of graduating and going to prom!
You know the girl with the big belly never wins prom queen.
And I can’t do this without him.
I thought he loved me. He said he loved me!
But what do I know about love?
I’m a just little girl and he just too old!
Your little girl, your baby girl.
Daddy! What am I supposed to do?
Adoption or abortion?
Neither of them sounds like a life option!
Daddy, I’m sorry.
I never pictured my future this way.
In my dreams we’d both be happy
Somewhere else far away,
But in reality life feels worse
Than my worst nightmares.
I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.
But I couldn’t look you in the eyes any more.
I had to runaway and find something worth living for.
Although all the stupid things I’ve done,
Besides the wrong path I choose,
I’m still daddy’s little girl.
And I’m sorry.
People say I’m a *****,
They don’t know my story!
They don’t even want to know
Where I come from!
I do drugs not because I feel worthless,
But because I need something to ****
The pain of sleeping with someone else’s husband,
Brother, cousin... father!
Because I am someone’s daughter!
Maybe a *******, a failure, a drugs addict.
But at the end of the day I’m still your daughter.
Daddy, all I ever wanted was to see you proud!
To see that smile of yours you had when I was a child
And you would spin me all around!
So forgive me father,
For leaving town,
For giving up on the prom crown,
For failing in life somehow