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nightshifft
11-22-2010, 10:05 PM
a very dear friend wrote this when she was 14 years old she shared it with me almost 5 years ago and i keep it and read it every few months
and with her permission i share with you

than you for shareing Eve

Daddy's Legacy

Daddy bought me pretty dresses
and he gave me songs to sing.
Daddy taught me pretty stories
from his vast imaginings.


He told me tales of princesses
with bourbon on his breath.
So cold to pledge his steadfast love
while deciding on his death.


He slashed his wrists down to the bone,
Settled for the cowards road.
Abashed, I made my way alone,
small shoulders bore the load.


The shadow of his death that day
became my unsought fame.
An endowment that has no release,
dishonor was my name.


So I'll toast my father's many gifts,
His bequest of love belied.
But his most telling legacy,
was his ****ing suicide.

Delta40
11-22-2010, 10:19 PM
a tragic legacy indeed.

PrinceMyshkin
11-23-2010, 01:53 PM
Some of the word choices in this heart-breaking poem are hard to credit as coming from a 14-year old! Are you at liberty to say what her life is like now, at 19?

nightshifft
11-23-2010, 09:40 PM
she is 46 now she shared that with me around 5 years ago and after years of feeling guilty about her father she attempted suicide her self and after that sought help and treatment she still feels guilt but is handling it better now she is the person who told me to write when i was in darkness

Delta40
11-23-2010, 09:47 PM
I'm reading the story of sylvia plath atm and was saddened to find her son committed suicide last year

jajdude
11-24-2010, 01:22 AM
Some of the word choices in this heart-breaking poem are hard to credit as coming from a 14-year old!

I thought the same thing, though some young people have the ability.

Jerrybaldy
11-24-2010, 06:56 PM
It is very powerful and a shameful legacy. The whole suicide as a selfish act, is an even stronger argument when that person has young children.

Haunted
11-25-2010, 05:58 AM
To leave his little princess it must have been a very hard choice for him and it's even harder for the rest of the world not to judge. Thanks for sharing, best wishes to your friend.