To Be a Daughter

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"I've come to love you like a daughter"
Being loved as a daughter hasn't done
me much good, if I'm honest

and trust me when I say that me
loving you as a father wouldn't do
much good for you either

I read once that some women weren't
meant to be mothers and that
some girls weren't meant to be daughters

Some days I wish I was never born,
but in the way I just wish I wasn't a
daughter and that I wish I was just a person

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