I'm terribly depressed and nobody seems to notice All are too busy wrapped up in themselves My mother says it's my own fault for not listening when she told me to leave My siblings couldn't be bothered They either too young to understand Drowning their sorrows in drink Or simply never around My father, well he is another story He accuses me of poisoning him and holding him at knife point According to him I'm the reason for all his problems I've unmanned him and killed my mother, who is surprisingly still alive Now I ask you how am I an eighteen year old girl responsible for my father's manhood When I defend myself against him, my family all agree that I was in the wrong and he only a victim It matters not to them that my fist do less damage than his words have done to my sanity They worship at his feet no matter what wrong he does them It's not that they are blind to his faults, they choose to ignore them They now see me as a substitute culprit to persecute in his place My only crime being unwilling to let a bully dictate my life It's true he has never raised a hand to me, but sometimes I wish he would Cause surely it would hurt less than the words he flings so carelessly It's true I've hit him and I make no excuses for myself I've never held him at knifepoint, all I said was I'd **** myself So it's no wonder I'm terribly depressed