Best Teenfather Poems
Concluding Part
PRELUDE
The song expresses the feelings of an Indian village girl. Her parents have fixed her
marriage (It generally happens in the rural areas of India, even to-day). She is about to
leave for the first time for her in-law’s place. She do not want to go to her father in
law’s place leaving her parents, her soul mates friends the animals and birds. The song
sketches the tender feelings of her heart for her Mother, Father and Brother & for the
animals and birds, whom she used to look after until now as her most precious friends and
who taught her how to sing a sweet song.
The Song of a Teenage Girl 2/2
Still if you have decided to send me to my in laws, place, O dear,
This year, O My Dear Father and Mother please,
Do not forget to send my brother on Rakhi*
So that I can tie up the Rakhi String* on the wrist of my sweet brother.
You know O Mother, being a newly wedded bride, I won’t speak much in my in laws place.
If I speak, who would bother to understand the feelings of my heart.
Still if you have decided to send me to my in laws, place,
O Mother, Please don’t forget, what I have told you today,
Only then, your daughter would be happy in her new alien place.
Ravindra
Kanpur India 17th October 2010
* Sasural. A Hindi word. Meaning father-in-laws place
*alien place. The place of in-laws generally remains alien for rural girls, as their
marriages are fixed by the parents & in some cases, even the husband remains totally
unknown to the bride.
* Koyal. The melody singing bird of India.
* Rakhi. Rakhi is a festival of siblings of opposite sex,
which symbolizes the love & the emotional bond between them.
Angered by the system
Imprisoned by fate
Filled with emotion
Outlined with hate
Every minute with him
Is a moment filled with pain
A father causing hurt
A child labeled insane
Picking at every wound
Determined to make him bleed
Father giving orders
Son longing to be free
Father swings in anger
Son hits back in rage
Father walks away free
Now son is in a cage
He wants to do the right thing
And live by all the rules
The law forces him to stay
How could they be so cruel?
He is no longer a child
He’ll be tried as an adult
Not allowed to make a choice
Though he’s allowed to vote
His father will not let him leave
Or do the things he wants
Tied by the laws of man
Tortured by fathers taunts
His mother wants to help him
She hasn’t the means
Witnessing as an outsider
In this horrible scene
Copyright © 2009 Lena “Lolita” Townsend
So stressful.
This life is so hard.
Things don't get easier.
I can't stand to dwell on things that never change.
Him walking away...
Doesn't feel that great.
But hating him doesn't feel much better.
I don't know how to handle it.
Its too hard to accept being abandoned.
A senior in high school..
And the only family I have is myself.
Family is just a word...
Because I have none.
Walk away from pain,
I understand that.
Walk away from family,
I'll never get it.
Your own child,
And I mean nothing to you.
Don't come visit,
Not even a phone call,
How can I call you my father at all?
I always thought I was worth so much more,
Until I watched you walk out that door,
Only to find, you wouldn't be coming back.
You should understand,
Your father did the same.
You must have learned by example.
The pain you just installed in me,
Is something I'll never forget.
I can cry all I want,
But you will never hear it.
Screaming inside, I need to let it all out,
with this pen to this paper,
I'll show you what I'm about.
I'm over the fact that you can't be there for me,
You not calling is too much,
I can't ask any more of you.
I feel betrayed.
Lost.
Broken.
Is this all you wanted?
Because you have done all this to me.
This pain may fade, but my memory will stay.
An absent father to a 17 year old girl.
A lasting, painful memory,
How does it make you feel?