Father

For seven years I felt fatherless and for seven more I felt loathed, lonely and rotten to think that someone like you would say no to someone like me, no to my life, to my existence.
Now seventeen years later I say: Thank you.
Thank you for teaching me what failure looks like, so that I will never fall for it,for teaching me that I will not always be welcomed, and for teaching me to persevere and to push on when no one wants you to succeed.
So father, thank you, your absence has been my life lesson.
Yes you played a part in the creation of my life, but you never once stayed by my side.
So father, that meaningless label I place on you, don’t waste my time,
for I have left the past and you behind.
There is nothing but ambition and dedication in my heart.
I might have been that anchor that kept your boat from navigating and exploring the beauty of the world, but I was that anchor that kept my mother’s from floating away in the sea of confusion and depression.
I am not saying that I am perfect, but I am saying that yes father, I was definitely worth it.

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