The Difference between a Dad and a Father

A Dad is someone who yells when the rules are broken

Someone who holds me when I cry

Someone whose smile warms me inside when I come through

Someone who has faith in me even when I fail

A Father is someone who gave away sperm

Someone who is the biological male parent

Someone who has the choice to take responsibility for his offspring

Someone who could donate a life to someone and never look back

I know not only do I have a Father but a Dad.

I know that when he yells he is teaching

I know he roughly jokes when I cry because he is hurting for me

I know he lied about the tears in his eyes at my first concert

I know that when he tells me to do better or else he believes I will

without the threat

I think my Dad inside scared about me growing up

I think my Dad still recalls when I was 6 and he didn't want to let go my bike

I think he didn't want to let go and see me skin my knee, and he still doesn't

I think that's why he still doesn't want me to take the ride of life on my own

I think he wants to be there to catch me when I fall

I know back then I needed my dad for everything.

Everything from learning to speak, to walking, to riding my bike, to learning

my times tables, to being a big girl.

My dad thinks that now that I'm leaving him.

I think my dad knows that he won't always be able to catch me

I know that that fact scares him.