Best Stepdaughter Poems

my stepdaughter sings
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I never got to teach you Maths,
Or English, or to drive.
I never got to pick you up
From school when you were five.

I missed all the nativities,
Where your angel wings unfurl.
And never had the chance
To call you "Daddy's little girl".

I never took you to the zoo,
Or...

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When anger clouds your eyes,
And your heart fills with rage,
Unable to hold back
The hurt inside;

When you lose control
Of your inner storm,
Expelling evil
On those around you;

When I feel your blows
Against my body,
Fierce and desperate,
Like a trapped animal,

I know you don’t want
To be this way–
I know you...

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You have never called me step
I have always been your daughter
No one ever thought of me as a step in your family
Even though my mother married Daddy when I was two

I have always belonged to all of you
Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Petey
I forgot I was a...

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