Deadbeat dad
I am your seed, an undesirable seed, abandoned seed.
Dad is your heart functioning, where is guilt?
You live it up, I live in sorrow.
You purchase liquor and change women like underwear.
I am a seed left in the wilderness to water itself.
I am a seed planted and left to seek for sunlight itself.
I grow between two hard rocks.
I am undesirable and abandoned seed.
I am in a darkest hole; you closed the lid and left.
Left me to be nurtured by a destitute mother.
OH! mother! Mother I see you drown; this is all beyond you.
I am undesirable and abandoned seed.
I live to witness her in misery, drags herself to work.
She is knackered, does not she supposed to lean on you?
OHH! I am a seed of chicken-hearted individual.
I am undesirable and abandoned seed.
About this poem
Children left by their fathers, depend on single parent, ordeals they get to experience, agony & wound of leaving without father.
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Written on December 26, 1999
Submitted by thinamaxathi on February 10, 2024
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Scheme | axxx bbxA xxcA xcxA |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 760 |
Words | 161 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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