FATHER

Take it all back. Everything you’ve given me, I don’t ant it. Why should you show me any kindness? I’m only your son. All I want is for you to listen, to hear my words. You steal from me, you throw away my thing, some of them may no be worth much, but they hold sentimental vale. All I have are memories, that’s what these things are to me, memories, of my past, I have nothing else. You’re throwing away my life. You treat me like a pet. I am not a slave. All I want is to be treated as a human being, nothing more. Just a living, breathing, feeling thing. It seems you go out of your way to make my life even more of a living hell then it already is. Am I not a part of you? You made me so do something. You say I’ll be nothing, and that I’m scum. Have faith in me dad, I don’t ask for help, I don’t need encouragement but please believe in me. You say I need money, then please, quit taking it away from me. Yous ay I need a job when you don’t have one yourself. The house is littered with my old possessions. The entire family tramples over me, entering my room, claiming any object as their own and all when I’m not there. To scared to face me, to face your sins. We move, you take me away from all of my friends, everything I know and I complain not. You demand everthing from me and still I do not complain. But when we arrive over half of my life is gone. Do I steal your fishing poles, the tires off your truck? Do I throw away your barbecue, your big screen T.V.? No, I treat you with the respect that every living thing deserves. Father, I love you. You are blood. But you’ve lost my trust. I am gone from you. You lost me along time ago. Hello world, I am an adult, without parent, without family. Without grudges, no looking back.

Goodbye Father.

By Dan Sherer Jr.

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