A Letter To Her Father Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFHIJKELEEMEAN OHPKQRSHPT| If I called you a knuckle dragger that'll be too extreme because I respect you | A |
| If I said you are a shoulder to lean on I'll be hurting myself by the lie I uttered | B |
| You aren't an ignoramus you promoted quality education | C |
| But what you didn't know how to do quite well | D |
| Was to listen to the whispers and watch out for the signs | E |
| They say experience is the best teacher | F |
| What is the evident outcome aside paranoia | G |
| I saw salt but the owner made me call it sugar | F |
| All in the name of protection yielded by fear | H |
| Maybe I wasn't really stubborn | I |
| Maybe it's just you who refused to understand | J |
| The pound pup may attack the wolf pack that bred it | K |
| That I'll never do because I choose to turn a blind eye to all I called your culpabilities | E |
| Yes I can't tell to your face how selfish you sound some of the time | L |
| And how so extravagant sometimes I thought you unwise | E |
| For all the time I stood silent I let you spit in my face | E |
| I pitied you because you had a health to maintain | M |
| Though I had too many things to say | E |
| I'll rather not say perhaps I chose not to | A |
| I've been black bottling up things inside | N |
| Good thing I knew how to fade into a cheerful yellow | O |
| You hardly ever approved so I never saw a need to persevere | H |
| If it was sport dance drama not involving books or study | P |
| Do me you a favour let's forget it | K |
| Maybe it's a phase everyone faced | Q |
| You set the rules of the game a duty we accepted | R |
| What I couldn't decipher was why you still wanted to play the game | S |
| On our behalf yet I don't remember us asking that favour | H |
| Yes I love you and you love me | P |
| But I know surely one day you'll see my handwriting written on the wall | T |
Obagha Chiamaka
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 04/18/2021
Poet's note: Some parents can be pretty restrictive and unreasonable in their actions- intentionally or not. Looking at things from the view of a growing teenager in this kind of setting was my inspiration for this poem. They're forced to swallow their words so they don't come off as disrespectful. Sometimes these swallowed words scars them on the inside.
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