Hate Daughter Poems

We used to go shopping you and I.
Sometimes remembering I start to cry.
Those happy times, the fun of the past,
I didn’t realize it wouldn’t last.
I...

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I've been feeling happy lately,
But my happiness is dull.
Maybe it's because I've not done things,
That were supposed to be done.
Lately I've been dodging bullets,
Never meeting...

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My first enemy was one I should have loved
He claimed that he loved me but I suppose not enough
He carved the gaps in all my...

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I have been forced,
to love people I hate.
I wish I had,
only loving people around me.
My ego has been cut,
cut with a very sharp knife many...

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The blossoming of masculinity is frightening and new, and I don't believe for a second that it is approved 

By the views of those around...

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You look just like your mother my relatives often cry and when they do the words fall upon my ears like knives. 

They say I...

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Whenever did the waters change
And the moonlight cease to be enticing
And the cherry tree by the window
Not blossom enough

For you to have outspoken
All the kind...

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I grew up thinking you were my world, my hero and my knight but you became my monster, my enemy and my fear. 
At a...

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You know that feeling…

The one of a love filled with hate
When you love someone
So so much,
That you’d do anything for them
Because they are all you...

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I hate her
cuz she made me hate
my love
my place
my world
my fate
my life
my face!...

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Attitude with latitude

originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic

Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested vainglorious woke
mine genuine apology,
viz sincerely yours...

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Driving to the hospital, you crack jokes.
Jokes about hate, and wanting to leave.
Those aren’t really jokes.
The truth is so easily heard.
I didn’t even have to...

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Beautiful, precious, daughter of mine
How I hate to see you grow
Seems like only yesterday I gave birth to you and now you're 20 years old.
You've...

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Last weekend was “Parent’s” weekend at Yale. A time when parents are formally invited to visit. They have receptions and other events - but no...

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After deciding
To skip this one too,
Soon enough
Her face turned blue.
Thinking what damage,
Could a skipped meal do?
And if one won't,
Then so won't two.
So she sleeps on...

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