Ts Lewis Poet Free verse

For Daughters Only

To daughters,
we failed to love
Who entered into love
 feeling like
 someone else's No one.
Sorry we passed
 our daddy issues
onto you.
Feeling abused,
we overcorrected
by neglecting you.
You misinterpreted
the way we filled
life's supply and demand
and added to your
 feelings of being
unwanted.
Sorry our truth
was confusing
We didn't know how
important tea parties were
or keeping silly little secrets
or placing butterflies
on your noses
or skipping instead of running
and pleated dresses 
with ballerina shoes 
and hair tied with purple ribbons.
Didn't know there was
more information beyond
chapter one of the
How to be a Daddy Manual. 
Sorry for not reading
between the lines.
Sorry for not escaping
the meeting sooner
Sorry for not slowing every minute
and making sure there 
was more of you in it.
Please forgive us.
You are our special someone.
If I've never said it before
It's because
I was always thinking it

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Lady Labyrinth January 11, 2020 at 9:41 PM Sometimes the daddies were not loved or told enough or shown enough Love in their young lives. It's a genetically recurring theme, lack of mother love or father love ... a hallway of mirrors, perpetuating cycles ... at some point, the legacy will stop and reflect and pull the pin on all that and change the course of history. x