Daddys Little Girl
He is
the bump
in the night,
and the shape
in the sheets,
the shadow
on the floor,
the creek
in the door,
the face
in the window,
and the whisper
in the dark
and hes
sitting
at
the
table.
He slips in
and hes sly,
and hes
funny and
why
does
everyone
think hes
so charming?
He drives
us
to the
store,
and his hand
creeps high
up my
thigh
and we
get
milk
and bread
and he
bumps
into
my ass
as we
pass
a stranger.
We go
to church
and he
shakes
the pastors
hand
with the
same hand
he’ll use
later
to
touch my
tiny
cleft.
So disarming,
so
alarming
ly
handsome
and
kind
and
Christian
says the
church ladies.
But they
dont know
how
very
thick
and
hard
and
rough
he is
when he
shoves
aside my
panties
while
hes tucking
me
in bed.
Comments
and i would love to be there to kick his fucking teeth in.
this is like an arrow to the heart. thanks for sharing love dimples. xxxxx
Thank you for your protective nature. It makes me feel all important and stuff. (I like when you call me Dimples) =)
riveting, heartwrenching…men like this are sickeningly predictable….my abuses were “just” emotional….abandonment, even while he was still there, and you don’t know how often i’ve counted myself lucky…thank you for sharing this with us, i hope it helped to get it out and down on paper….
It does help, except…I feel like I could never convey how he embodies everything scary and evil in my world, even after all this time. Im sorry for your childhood loneliness. No child should ever have to feel abandoned by their parent.
– Davina
keep writing….the more of it you get down on paper, or out into the world, the less of it there will be in you…..
this is a very powerful doorway into the dark. the word choice is perfect. the way it starts like something from a haunted fairytale, “the bump in the night”. you know what you’re doing.
My mother could have wrote this when she was 16…
powerful writing!
– Davina
So sad…so many sick people…but to think a father would be that low makes me cry….
a very powerful piece….I applaud you for your bravery!!!!!!!!!!!! xoxoxoxo
Thank you so much for reading and for your words, sally. Your work is beautiful.
– Davina
It is so bad what some adults do to children. I think you are so brave for sharing this, and I wish I could wave a magic wand in a way and take it all away and that it had never happened in your life. I divorced my husband because he was really nasty to my daughters, I did love him to bits, but when it got to the point when their little faces sank when he returned home from work, enough was enough, and I sent him packing.
You have such admirable strength. Your a star!
Thank you, Elle, for your supportive words. Im glad you had the strength to do what my own mother did not. Thank you for reading.