Daddy’s Love
The dark night calls – a voice, a laugh, “Here’s Johnny,: a television flickers.
Footsteps on the tiled floor – a cupboard is opened – a glass is poured
Footsteps fading away, Johnny Carson is saying his monologue.
An empty glass.
Anger
A flick of a switch – silence
Darkness
I hear my father’s footsteps coming near.
Shadows slithering down a wall.
I clutch my bed sheets tight
I will not be safe.
The devil comes tonight.
I close my eyes tight.
I try to run and hide within my own psych. There is nowhere to go. There is nowhere to hide. There is no tree to climb.
My little body can’t fight, can’t hide.
My mind turns off the lights. I stare at the ceiling from where hangs a Pepsi-Cola light.
He has come. He needs to show his love. A familiar knowing hand on my sheets and in a whoosh they seem to go up to thin air.
I am evil. I am corrupted. I am bad. I hear the deep whispers.
I feel his loving touch. I smell his vodka-tinged breath.
An insertion, a jab, a white hot stab as the screwdriver goes in.
DADDY LOVES ME. I AM SO PRECIOUS I try to make myself hear. I want to draw him near.
Pain numbness deadness void
White bright blindness in my head
I pray for forgiveness. I pray for release. I pray for awareness.
I pray for death. I pray for white light. I pray for my dad’s touch.
I am alone with his raging love.
It frightens me. It makes me happy.
I am alone in my schizophrenic fright.
Silent dry tears never appear.
Daddy tell me you love me.
I float. I soar.
I am stone. I am the Earth. I am the sky.
I am flesh. I am blood. I am a lie.
I am a disappointment. I am deformed. I am imperfect. I am a nuisance.
I am a waste of time.
Daddy’s Love
The dark night calls – a voice, a laugh, “Here’s Johnny,: a television flickers.
Footsteps on the tiled floor – a cupboard is opened – a glass is poured
Footsteps fading away, Johnny Carson is saying his monologue.
An empty glass.
Anger
A flick of a switch – silence
Darkness
I hear my father’s footsteps coming near.
Shadows slithering down a wall.
I clutch my bed sheets tight
I will not be safe.
The devil comes tonight.
I close my eyes tight.
I try to run and hide within my own psych. There is nowhere to go. There is nowhere to hide. There is no tree to climb.
My little body can’t fight, can’t hide.
My mind turns off the lights. I stare at the ceiling from where hangs a Pepsi-Cola light.
He has come. He needs to show his love. A familiar knowing hand on my sheets and in a whoosh they seem to go up to thin air.
I am evil. I am corrupted. I am bad. I hear the deep whispers.
I feel his loving touch. I smell his vodka-tinged breath.
An insertion, a jab, a white hot stab as the screwdriver goes in.
DADDY LOVES ME. I AM SO PRECIOUS I try to make myself hear. I want to draw him near.
Pain numbness deadness void
White bright blindness in my head
I pray for forgiveness. I pray for release. I pray for awareness.
I pray for death. I pray for white light. I pray for my dad’s touch.
I am alone with his raging love.
It frightens me. It makes me happy.
I am alone in my schizophrenic fright.
Silent dry tears never appear.
Daddy tell me you love me.
I float. I soar.
I am stone. I am the Earth. I am the sky.
I am flesh. I am blood. I am a lie.
I am a disappointment. I am deformed. I am imperfect. I am a nuisance.
I am a waste of time.