Does It Make You

He is surviving the burden Of your heart striving to harden For loving you has never been a bargain Yet even in his unspeakable pain He wishes for a daughter no other You say he has never been a better father Oh yes, you have got this from your mother But does it make you a better daughter To toss him through hell and high water You say he should have been there For him to recently reappear And claim he loves you dear That his conscience is now clear But isn’t your deaf ear That refused him to hear When he was on all four Admitting that he had to fall To realize his flaw. Forgiveness, you preach Second chances, your keynote speech You claim it is but a rupture That led to unpreventable breach To your authentic posture In reality, they don’t come free In fact they flatter your vanity But does your sanity Reflects the actuality “Put yourselves in my shoes” You ask But have you ever put yourself in his Alas! You don’t take that to task But his failings to unmask Has never been to you so easy While shame is to crime so nosy You deny yourself the gift Of forgiveness And so he dies Deprived of seeing His last wish materialize But has you heart stop bleeding As you no longer need to repudiate his pleading “It was not his fault” Says you mother at last “I lied to him that you were not his daughter” So we wouldn’t be bothered as you grow older Now does it make you a genuine hater. To just give your mother a hug And then embrace her