Daddy’s Girl

No words have ever angered more

No words have ever felt so right

They are the source of all my happiness

They are the source of all my strife

When I see you smile

When I make you proud

When I disappoint you

When I let you down

I feel it each time you smile at me

I dread it when you frown

That which calls and comforts me

And that which drags me down

Love given without question

For I am your own

Felt less and less each passing day

Expressed so little now that I am grown

No two rocks have ever been

So far and yet so near

Drifted like a continent

Starting with my teenaged years

Was it you or was it me

That caused this monumental rift

Your work,

My life,

Your responsibilities,

My pride.

Emotions are a weakness

Was that your creed or was it mine?

Doesn’t really seem to matter now

It is something by which we both abide.

I talked about it with mom

She told me so did you

And yet nothing has changed that much

Considering the fact that I have yet to talk with you.

The question that enters my mind

Can it ever really change?

Would the words still apply,

If our relationship didn’t remain the same

We both know that our love exists

Because of duty and by choice.

So we don’t have emotionally deep conversations

And I don’t come to you when I need to cry

And I don’t tell you when something large goes wrong in my life.

What we do have, though,

Is something that beats all of that.

A deep spiritual connection

That no amount of words could hope to express

We laugh out loud together

We sit together in peace

We hold intelligent conversations

And argue about important things

I can come to you for advice

And I know you are always there

I don’t have to tell you about the great big things

But when I do you always help to make them disappear

And even though I don’t come to cry on your shoulder

I know that if I did you would care

Just having you around to love

Makes this phrase that much easier to bear.