And I am glad I realize this now Because you would never have been the one to admit it And now I am done You gave me nothing Except snide remarks
You never had a good thing to say Never had a kind word leave your lips That is until it was greased with black velvet
Then and only then They pour out, slurring and sloshing Like the last drink before bed
Only your words don’t come with ice Like your ***** have to
But some times More often than not No words are said at all
For more than a year at times Nothing was said
No Happy birthday No merry Christmas And least of all A Hello
So now that I have spent time without you Out of earshot I am starting to see how wrong you were But I am also seeing you for who you are You are no longer the reflection Looking up at me in the broken glass I had to swept up from the floor You aren’t the spontaneous, Unreliable Dad who goes out and buys a sailboat
No instead I see who you really are
Hurt, Scared, Defensive Only you can’t raise a child at arm’s length I can relate to your child hood After all I too know what its like to try and sift pearls of wisdom from the fountain of inebriated words pouring from a parents mouth Maybe I just got better at it than you It takes time and you generally just end up with handfuls of ash but every once in a while you see the shimmery white bead of wisdom standing out from its dark surroundings
I do not In anyway Condone what you did Do But there comes a point that I realized Part of where our relationship being muddled messed up and painful falls to me It is not my fault you did what you did But it was mine that I expected any different A bad night Ending in tears Harsh words and slammed doors And profuse apologies the next morning The usual every other court mandated weekend None of which my fault But the four-hour car ride home In which I usually decided to forgive you... That was I should have never believed after the second or third time that things would change After the eighth or ninth Or when I lost count I gave you second chance after second chance Hoping one day that old ugly saying wouldn’t be true when I woke up the next morning
That saying being: “I have three priorities ***** Smokes And my truck”
I guess I can’t fault you for being honest but when you said sorry and you looked so sincere is when I wanted your honesty to come through while in actuality that’s where it faltered
So it’s not worth me holding a grudge Getting back and trying to get even
When you hold in all of that poison it hurt you more than who you hold the grudge against
So You were wrong about me I thought you should know and one day if you don’t yet, you will see that One day I will look back and see how wrong you were but not resent you for it It's when I realized this I started to forgive you It may not be okay what happened But I will be okay so I can’t waist myself on being angry, it only hurts me