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This work is dedicated to my father, who loved and nurtured me for the first thirteen years of my life. It is a poem that reveals my feelings towards my father and his intentional and untimely death. I wrote this poem as a sort of letter to him, expressing my sadness, guilt, and anger in his departure, but also thanking him for the wonderful, earlier years when he touched my life. Love Poems
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Turn To Me And Smile
by Alison Rotmark
I remember you from long ago,
Your face reassuring as you kissed away my tears;
Your patient touch as you taught me to golf and how to swing "just so".
You'd slay the monsters in my closet, just to ease my fears...
You were the bravest person I ever thought I knew.
I wanted so much to grow up knowing you;
But I never knew your rope of strength was growing O' so tight...
I never knew your sadness was soon to strangle your fight.
You left me all alone;
You left me sad and scared.
You left me in our life for the dark and the unknown.
There was so much more with me that you could've shared;
You'll never understand how important it is to me
To have had you here and have you see -
Of all I am and all I'm not.
I'm all grown- up... would you be proud of me through all I've fought?
You never worried about my first date,
Or yelled because I came home an hour late.
I'll never see you turn to me and smile,
As you would walk me sadly down the aisle.

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gail
im also 13 when my dad left me! now im 14 but i cant still accept the fact that his not anywhere! i cried out loud when i read the last part "You never worried about my first date, Or yelled because I came home an hour late. I'll never see you turn to me and smile, As you would walk me sadly down the aisle. "
Emily
This poem is amazing, it touched me. i'm 16 and my father died last year in a motorcycle accident and i dont think i'll ever see it through. thankyou for youre sweet beautiful words.
Lynette
WOW, I lost my mother when I was 16 and everything you have put down from your heart is the way i am feeling to this day. Thank you, you have put words to my feelings.
Sarah
I love this poem sooo much. It relates to me in the sense that I have too lost my dad and never got to experience those things in the poem either
jo
i love your poem, my younger brothers lost their dad (we have different fathers)due to his lifestyle and they are now here alone. I had experenced the most and best of him and his life, as he treated me like his own girl and now he is gone and my little brothers were to young to remeber him. i really read your poem cause i wanted to read about your lonelness. as i failed to take that into consideration everytime i tell the boys about how great their dad was. and their reaction - he should have been here now for us. after reading your poem i can understand them better now. thank you and i wish you luck in the future.
Jamie
i just wanted to let you know how much your poenm really hit home,my father was never really around much when i was young he and my mother divorced while i was at a young age and he was never there,well one day he came back and we had just started seeing each other again and my brothers and i loved it about 1 month later my father passed away from an allergic reaction to a bee sting and this poem really hit me,i feel this exactly way inside ,he died when i was 15,now i am 24 and married less than 4 months ago that was a very very hard part in my life when he couldnt be there to walk me down the isle. i feel your pain . (
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