Today’s prompt was based off Robert Frost’s infamous poem ‘The Road Less Taken’. We were asked to write our own poem about taking a path that has made all the difference.
I wanted to write something funny or uplifting, but, as usual, failed. The truth is I do not have a good relationship with my family, too many things have happened. Although I forgive them, I stand by the fact that I do not have to live with them.
‘The Apology’
The same moon rises and the same sun sets
But the flowers outside our doors are not the same
I wake when you wake, and sleep when you sleep
But 10am for me is night and you morning.
What can I say, I’m sure you would’ve been a good father
Had I been there to be called your daughter.
Had I stayed still enough to not think anymore
About when exactly does a hot night become a cool morning,
How in our family it is said with absolute reverence
We are all born to be disciplined by God,
But as children are wanting in a parents hard hand.
Did you know what is said about little girls
Who become women never having fathers
When you left? What about the whiskey bottles
On the coffee table, empty cabinets, empty mouths?
She hated you as much as I never knew you.
Would you walk back home, knowing me now,
With your face, with your heart, I know you regretted it,
As some point, now that I have met, loved, missed, and left
You – I could’ve been a good daughter, as much as you
My father, and I’m sorry, but the past that hurts more
Than any late apology that is said looking at me looking at you.
Little Thoughts and Actions 