8/6/2019 Unsung Father's Day

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Unsung Father s Day

A great number of people come from broken or single-parent households. We all deal with father s day

differently because we all feel differently about it. One thing that is very common is confusion of rolesand identity. This is a poem to try to express a facet of the complicated relationship some people havewith their fathers because father s day cards tend to overlook this increasingly common relationship

dynamic.

I ve never made you breakfast in bedI never got the chance, you were gone instead.I never looked forward to the weekend s affairs

To hope you d show up was too much to bear

We had lots of fun whenever you were aroundBut those were times often sought and rarely found

I told all my friends that you were the best dadand sat envious of the father they had

Such is life in the end, we don t get what we needBut we keep on trying despite it to succeedNow after many years I have a new baby of my own

How can he have a grandpa when his grandma is alone?

If life were a game you d never come in lastbut your partner, your son, just can t run that fast.

So now here we are on two very separate roads

and you re still my tragic hero that fills me with woe

In the end, I ve learned, so I m not at all resentfulyou taught me not to put up with what s broken or unhelpful

And yet the paradox of my love stays with youAnd I ll bring up my baby knowing you were great too.