Dad

03/11/2020 - Poem a Day Compilation



Dad, can’t you help me?

I’m so cold.

I feel so all alone here,

And I just want you

To be here.



I can hear the traffic nearby

But those people can’t see me;

I have no voice left, Dad,

I don’t know how you’ll

Find me.



.There are no lights down here,

Just walls

All around me, Dad,

Blocking me from the world

And overshadowing any hope.



There’s a pain radiating through me

I can’t breathe;

I wonder what I did wrong –

Whatever it is, Dad,

I’m sorry.



I can’t help who I am, Dad,

Who I was born to be,

Do you think

I’d choose this

With all I’ve had to face?



I’ve turned my back on the insults,

Walked away from the names,

But the hate still found me, Dad –

Tortured me –

Broke me.



I can’t move from this spot

I didn’t think

It would end like this

I’m not ready to go yet

Can’t you come get me now, Dad?



The darkness in people’s heart

Is spilling out into the streets

And now I lie in the midst of it, Dad,

Drowning

In the bigotry they’ve learned.



Why am I paying the price

For the fear,

And anger in others?

What did I do to them, Dad,

That they feel so justified?



My shirt is soaked through –

Tell mum I’m sorry,

It’s the one she bought

For Christmas,

But it’s torn now, Dad.



Tell her

It’s ok,

Don’t mend it –

I won’t need it, Dad,

Not anymore.



I know you didn’t like it

When I was out

At a club;

It should have been safe,

I promise, Dad.



You worried, Dad,

And I should have

Listened

But I didn’t think

It would be me.



I wasn’t a headline

In the paper,

I was safe

And good,

Dad, please.



I want to go back

To when I was young

And you held me in your arms,

Telling me you’d always protect me

But where are you now, Dad?



I’m so tired.

My eyes won’t stay open

And, Dad,

Even when I manage to

The world is out of focus.



Can you help me?

Dad, I need you

I don’t want to be alone

It wasn’t supposed

To be this way.



There’s nothing left

To do

To say

To feel

Dad



Please

Can you

Find me

Take me home

Dad?



Dad?

It’s ok

I’m sorry

I can’t …