Birthday Daughter Poems

You’re gentle, judgemental,
A freak in sheep’s disguise
Yet in some ways you’re burdened by self sacrifice,
You’re obsessive, compulsive,
Afraid to let me go
You’re afraid of what’s left...

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The days keep going by,
and I am still left wondering why
you are no longer on this earth.
I remember the day I gave birth—
a tiny miracle...

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People count the years
by candles and quiet tears.
The twenties, they say,
are when we wait
for the first cry
from a miracle
just learning to breathe.

But some of us,...

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It hit me just today
I saw her in a whole new way
Birthday dinner, just her and I
A thought brought a tear to my eye
Has always...

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When I was born, my life sucked. I wasn’t important, nobody really cared. Some bad things happened, and eventually it led me to you. I...

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Happy birthday to the most handsome, most loving, 
and most amazing Papa in the world — no one else but you!
Before anything else, I thank...

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Every day I wake up,
And every day I remember
The way you left me with no warning
Fleeing like a dog off its leash
It was my 13th...

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It was a very cold day I was tired all afternoon,
I felt the need to sleep and I took to my bed,
I double checked the...

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Another year has come up again and as I think of all of the memories which all that I have since you don't talk to...

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A young babe was born in the middle of the month of May.
She lost her mother in a sad way days before her first birthday.
To...

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red letters on a desk with dust,
her birthday card
written perfecta —
water drop on paper;

‘to the leaf
i know will fall
but not too far,
please not too far’

flew...

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Eyes wide, beady blue. With skin of silk, pink and new. A pea-sized gift, oh how you grew.  

 

You know me, and I...

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How does a father—  
just leave?  
Like a shadow slipping out the door,  
did he fade, slow,  
until he was a...

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   A gardener was gifted a seedling. 
Before planting its teeny weeny stem, 
he gently prepared the earth, 
carefully, vigilantly,   so...

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I feel so bad writing these verses
Spewing hate when all I feel is love
38 years of pain is seeping
Kindness leaving, my life is for reaping

Never...

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