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We're strangers, 

Simply connected by blood and some DNA. 

You took my fragile bones 

And eradicated your love with the most fickle tale, 

One bone after another you broke, 

Just like the promises you made 

And still find the power to make. 

My innocence I left in your hands, 

Like every daughter should, 

And you found the laughter in failing me. 

Almost as if you're amused by my distress. 

Every endless notion you conjured was left for me 

To wallow in. 

Another child added to the list of statistics; 

Fatherless. Abandoned. Bruised. 

Broken. 

How dare you say you love me, 

When the only love I've ever known was the love 

I received from a Father not of this world. 

How dare you say you want the best for me, 

When all my blessings 

Have been in the form of anything but you. 

How dare you speak words of picky lies 

Pronounced like a rescuer 

But only to end up in the same 

Hole you began to dig back when I was just a young girl. 

My heart beaten and torn like rags, 

It goes deeper than the skin. 

It streams through my veins and races through my fingertips. 

Every last word on the page filled with 

That same hurt that ran through your head,

When you found out losing your youngest 

Meant giving up on both.

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*Occasionally I write poetry, and I've decided to share some more of it on my blog. A little different from the kind of stuff I normally write, but these are things I can't really just easily discuss.