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Thank you
April 15, 2019
for showing me
that i don’t need
affection from a boy
to live my life.
thank you for expressing
your filthy, gut wrenching ways
so i don’t end up
a black-eyed thief
like you,
my father.
thank you for the bleak
nights you’d leave,
teaching me how to unfreeze
our bitter black pipes
at 12 years old.
thank you for casting your anger,
aiding me to stand up
and shout so you
would leave mom alone
while your scaly hands would grip
and bruise her body.
thank you for igniting
me to be strong, displaying
what hatred feels like
so a boy doesn’t break
my heart,
finishing what you
started.
© Rachel M., Mobile, AL
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My father has been addicted to drugs for basically all my life. Throughout the years it has progressed and ended up very badly. But by him doing this, I would like to thank him for changing me into a person who looks at the world differently and to being a person who can take care of myself. The way my father uses and acts, it has shown me how harsh and bad drugs are and no matter what i will never use them. Thank you dad for showing me that Mom can be my father too.