Father Do You Hear Me
Writing is a cathartic process in which I find my voice in different facets of each poem. Poetry, is a unique discourse of reflections
Why is it when I verbalize you don’t
Hear the words I articulate
Trying to keep open the communication
Between us
You make it so hard when you turn away
Not wanting to listen
Every night when I say my prayers
I ask for your forgiveness
If I haven’t lived up to your expectations
I need you to stand with me
On this journey to manhood
Father do you hear me
When I was little you use
To give me hugs
Showed me I’m loved
Now you’ve abandon me
I feel so alone
In this world on my own
Tears I have cried I’m
Not ashamed to admit
Father do you hear me
Are you listening now
To my words
I am your son
In your image I was formed
Your voice when I was little
Sounded like thunder
Now that I’m a man
It sounds like a melodious note from a song
If you hear me dear father
Please listen to this
I love you know matter what
Sun shines on a new day
And I put to rest the past
And someday I hope you
Come to see the man I’ve
Become
© 2011 ek ellis
Comments
Dim Flaxenwick from Great Britain on October 01, 2011:
Awesome. l know fathers who miss their children terribley, through no fault of their own.
This was so beautiful.
neeleshkulkarni from new delhi on September 24, 2011:
even at 56 at times i wish my mother or my father were there to just pat me on my back and say "it is all right - it will get ok"you put the need togeteher very well
