Dear Dad

• Rhiannon Kemp, Grade 7
• Poetry
• 2012

To my long lost father, i dont know where to start! Why did you throw my mum away and ditch us for some tart?

To my daddy dearest, how could you be so cruel? To take all the money mummy earned so I cant go to school?

To my biological dad, why did you do the things you did? Like hit my poor old mummy and give her black eyes that she hid.

To my Dear Old Man, why would you run away like that? Leaving mummy nothing but the house and the welcome mat.

Dear my runaway pappa, how could you miss my life? My first words, steps and maybe someday, the guy who'll call me his wife.

To my long lost father there is nothing more to say. Except I miss you more and more each day you stay away.