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.

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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
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 760
Words 161
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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