Daddy's Faltering Love by Pauline Hamblin
Why is daddy mad?
I tried so hard today.
To do everything he wanted.
And to stay out of his way.
I feel bad that Daddy,
From God, was given me.
He wanted a child,
He could be proud of.
Not me as I can clearly see.
I don't understand it
Mommy says she loves me, too.
But when daddy hits me
She says there's nothing she can do.
Other kids at school.
Speak highly of their dad.
I don't think he hits them.
Or they, too, would be sad.
I want my daddy to hold me.
And bounce me on his knee.
Instead he thinks that I am bad.
This request is not to be.
I tried so hard today.
To do everything he wanted.
And to stay out of his way.
I feel bad that Daddy,
From God, was given me.
He wanted a child,
He could be proud of.
Not me as I can clearly see.
I don't understand it
Mommy says she loves me, too.
But when daddy hits me
She says there's nothing she can do.
Other kids at school.
Speak highly of their dad.
I don't think he hits them.
Or they, too, would be sad.
I want my daddy to hold me.
And bounce me on his knee.
Instead he thinks that I am bad.
This request is not to be.
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It is my hope my poems may somehow reach an abuser and open their eyes. Child abuse needs to stop and I'm grateful for the chance to write this poem
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Such a real life experience. Honestly, every thought and emotion that was conveyed was the exact way I felt from the age of 8 years old. My father did many things to me and my mother, and all I wanted to do was be perfect, so that he would be proud of me. It really helps to know that someone else understands and can express it in a way that I have never been able to. My screen name also describes my whole mindset now. Anyway, the poem was excellent. I appreciate the fact that someone voiced how I feel on paper, so that many other people can read and understand. Now I know, I'm not alone. - mockery to malice |
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This was a very good poem it made me cry inside. I'm still a child 12 at that but i never had child abuse but i can prvent it from happening from other children god bless your soul and may god bless p. s. your poem was a pleasure and it gave me ideas about making article and talk with my family so we can stop child abuse for other kids because everbody is a somebody. - Melanie |
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I think my life would have been peaceful ,had there been no father to me ,to my beloved brother,to my dear sister! - Shraddha |
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it's so touching and I hate the father in the poem ): - Beatrice |
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I am truly moved by this poem. It shows the failed attemps to please a father by a young innocent child and a worthless coward of a mother who doesn't dare defend the life she had created with the monster who's destroying it right then. - amelia |
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That poem was so nice and it made me cry it really touched my heart! - rosa |
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i like this poem alot. it hits a certain spot in my heart because i know first hand of what child abuse is all about. - kathleen |
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i write alot of poems myself and i just want to say how brilliant i thought it was, it touched in the same way my poems touch me, it sounds as if it is purely from the heart - lorretta |
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i love this poem. brings memories from my child hood. this tells my friend's past made here change so much yet still scared. it made me cry. - Baby_D_Crys |
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This is the saddest poem I ever read in my life!I'm 13 and sometimes my daddy hits me but I know he loves me. But that poem still brought tears to my eyes. - arkayne |
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You always feel its your fault. you always feel your bad. thank you for writing what I cant speak. - Private |
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i liked this poem and it touched my heart it made me want to hold my arms out and give that little kid a hug - Genna |
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i loved this poem it reminds me of my dad. i cried when i read this. - katie |
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this poem was excellent it mad me cry cuz i used 2 git abused by my mom - nicky |
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This is the most touching poems ever. *sniff sniff* - Selma |
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hi i loved the poem i know how it is to get abused i still do by my father so i know how it feels to feel down and unwanted. - ally |
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god bless you! your poem is just what people need to hear. my dad died two years ago, and he would hit me and tell me that he hated me, the last thing i said to him was "i wish you were dead" the next morrning my dad was liying on the floor dead, he had an anurisum, which flooded his lungs and he died. now that he is gone i have found out that he had an abusive childhood, so he didnt know any better. every night i pray for him and that he is happy where ever he is. if i could turn back the clock i would have never have said the things i did, he was a great dad sometimes, you just have to forget the bad things that happend in you life, the people who caused you pain and made you sad because i is normaly because of pain in their lives that makes them put pain into yours. i am only 16 so i have so much to learn about life, but i think my dad thoght me so much i would never know if i had never had him in my life. god rest his soul. xx - caryn |
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This poem really hits home. It brings out alot of emotion and so many memories, all that were very painful, but to cry about it finally is relieving. - Crys |
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this poem hit me hard, i cried after reading it reminds me of my youth and how i was thank-you - jack |
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i never realised how good poetry is i had to gets poems for my english assignment, and the child abuse poems touch me very much that it angers me to know that this is really what happens. - Steven |
