Daddy you’re not around anymore
because you and mommy fought,
I didn’t understand at four
of your marriage ending plot.

I waited for you everyday
hoping you would come home.
Spending hours of my day
just waiting by the phone.

Each day grew bigger frowns
and my heart grew saddened.
‘Till mommy sat me down
and told me what happened.

I saw you twice weekly
this seemed okay for me.
I tried to act meekly
so pain you wouldn’t see.

Our favorite show was “Cops”
to us, it was life.
Then that life suddenly stops
and you have another wife.

You missed my important years
of being a little Tyke.
You rarely wiped my tears
after falling off my bike.

My first day of class
I just wanted to cry.
In cars, student’s daddies pass
but you never drove by.

You missed every Christmas morning
you missed every Halloween night.
You replaced it doing something
by me visiting on weeknights.

When I went on walks
seeing daddies with their daughters.
My heart sank like rocks
It had suddenly become slaughtered.

I’ll never be like her
that girl with her daddy.
This I know for sure
I’ll never be that happy

It’s now been ten years
you have two more kids,
I’m holding back the tears
wanting to tell you this.

Daddy what’s happened to you?
What happened to my daddy?
This isn’t what daddies do
leaving their daughters very unhappy.

Your new life’s more important
your old life left broken.
You’ve stopped being my parent
yet my pain still unspoken.

You’re still in my heart
though it may not seem.
Even though we are apart
and I am left unseen.

Daddy as I write this
I want you to understand.
You’re still all I miss
I’m still your biggest fan.

-Krysten Stremmel