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No Encore (The Night Dad Left)
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No Encore (The Night Dad Left) |
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Tess Member
since 2000-03-22
Posts 288Australia 
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Song night on my worn and bristly, camel lump bed, is happier than Christmas and birthday combined. Train track welts strum hot and deep like the time I left my fingerprints burnt on Gran's pygmy black stove. Smile wider than my mouth can hold. Dad's laugh tumbles. Thunder before the storm. She strikes. He leaves with a rumbling roar. I wonder if lightning never strikes twice, as I try to sing the rain clouds away with my drought-stricken throat. < !signature--> "Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."~ Samuel Butler ~ [This message has been edited by Tess (edited 08-01-2000).] |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
Tess- this is heart wrenching. You have penned a beauty in style and flow and you have penned a tormenting sight within your words. |
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notlikely2 Member
since 2000-06-16
Posts 308UK |
Tess, as beautiful and well written as this is...it is so hard for me to comment upon. You see, I have been that Dad who left, and I can well remember the tears in my own little girl's eyes as she handed me her favourite Teddy Bear to keep as a reminder of her. Even though I see her twice a week I can never be free of the guilt I feel when I think about that day, just a few day after Christmas last year. Thank you, though, for expressing your own pain here. It may help me to understand. Love is like the mumps.....the older you are, the harder it hits you! |
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Tess Member
since 2000-03-22
Posts 288Australia |
Mark - thanks for your kind words and empathy. Not likely2 - well l am 35 now, so this happened a long long time ago.But something I have not written about until now. But on the positive side, my dad and I now have a very warm relationship, like we did back then, and I love him dearly. Of course I understand now why all that happened. So I guess I'm writing this reply so that if you read it you will know there's hope for you and your little girl too. She may miss you, and maybe be angry even sometimes, but that doesn't mean you've ever lost her love. Take care  "Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."~ Samuel Butler ~ |
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