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My Father and I

September 30, 2013
By PrettyKitty570 SILVER, Newark, New Jersey
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&quot;Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent&quot;<br /> --Eleanor Roosevelt

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My father and I never danced one dance
My father and I always fought the same fight

My father and I never shared the same taste
My father and I always had the same wide nose

My father and I will never dance at my wedding
My father and I will always be distant

My father was always leaving
I was never going

My father was always talking to me
I was never talking back to him

My father always said “I love you”
I never had a response

© Ryan P., Greenwood Village, CO

The author's comments:
This poem is about my relationship with my father, who left my mother and me when I was about 3. He has recently tried to come back into my life and this poem is about some feelings that this has stirred up.
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