To Daddy:
Daddy, we miss you
Why did you go?
Did you leave
‘Cause we did something wrong?
Did we yell too much?
Or not go to bed?
Or brushing our teeth
Took too long?
We’re little and scared,
We thought that you cared,
Don’t you love us?
We don’t understand.
Mommy cries too,
We don’t know what to do,
Except hug her
And try holding her hand.
You have a new home,
Wasn’t ours good enough?
Without you here
Feels so wrong.
We try to be happy,
But we’re angry and sad,
You’ve been gone
For far too long.
We know we’re not perfect,
We thought that you were,
We thought we’d be
Always protected.
Instead, you’ve found two,
More important to you,
Spend your time with
And we’ve been rejected.
Do they make you happy?
And do what they’re told?
We’ll never know
What we did.
Leaving your children,
The way that you have,
Is too much for
Two little kids.
The days that we miss you,
Fail to compare,
With the damage
We’ll live with forever.
Knowing we grew,
Without a father we knew,
How could your arrangement
Be better?
Ohana means family,
No one left behind,
But that must not
Mean much to you.
So go on and leave us,
It’s really ok,
It must be something
That you’ve got to do.
We’ll stay with Mommy,
‘Cause, she needs us more,
Although you may
Not agree.
But we are a family,
That’s broken and torn,
With a Dad
Who is happier free.
About this poem
Divorce through the eyes of children.
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Written on February 08, 2009
Submitted by kcookcollins on March 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
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Words | 316 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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