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Fatherless Child

Could it be that I substitute lustful infatuation for love? or mistake an act of kindness for trust?

Using his words to define me, i mean refine me, leaving the real me in the dust

Can you really blame me for being attracted to someone who shows interest in my existence

Someone who is persistent, consistent and whose smile breaks my resistance

It's a real feeling I get of satisfaction through common conversation of nothingness

The willingness to waste time with me means something to me if not everything for me because time can not be given back

Sorry your interest in my existence was nonexistent, guess in the 90's being a father was wack.

 

Respect from hoes was worth more than respect from your daughter

If it was up to you, if you were her, you would have probably said "abort her"

You knew I was a girl and that I'd be your first daughter but that wasn't enough for you

You had 9 months which turned into 1 plus twenty now you're begging for my heart to attend to it's broken it needs amends too, a man too?

 

So I'm looking at guy after guy to cut into some deep hurting pain from my past

Not realizing that they can't give me what I'm missing cause I can't miss what I never had

I asked God for a brother but I never got em

When I was 8 I wanted to meet my Father but I never saw em

After that, just like everything you cant change in life, you learn to accept

Accept and move on not accept and dwell in it

 

Yet I found myself looking for what I lacked in a male figure in a young boy

I didn't know it yet but my innocence he would destroy

How can you be sure about love and if you're in it, if there is no demonstration clearly displayed to see

How can i be sure that he loves me for me, not what i give or what i can be but everything that I am if I haven't truly accepted me for me

I long to feel love from a man who created me with his *****

Not physical love from a boy with a toy in it ***** I'm talking something long term

Deeply invested in things that cannot be returned or given back

Like time, memories, laughs, tears, words, or the lack...thereof

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dymond-cameron
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Apr 21, 2015
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