Love Poetry ✓

5.

I miss you too.
Don't for a second think that I don't.

I didn't mean to leave you and your mom.
But I knew she'd be fine.

She was always the strong one...
But I —
I was weak.

I regret leaving you both.
What sort of a man just gives up hope?

I just need you to know how truly sorry I am...
I couldn't be a father to you.
I'm not even worth being a man.

I don't want you to ever think that —
I'm ashamed of you.
I could never be.

Just because I have a new family —

It doesn't mean I love you any less.

I wish I could see you.
I wish I could tell you —
all the things you'd want to hear.
All the stories I have to share.

But your mom would never allow me to.
I understand her,
she wants to protect you from someone like me...

A monster.
I broke you —
I broke your little five-year-old heart.

And that's something I'll forever regret.
I bow my head in shame.
Only I am to blame.

I wish I was a better man.
Wished I wasn't such a coward.
Wished you didn't resent me the way you do.

Now I write this poem —
when I'm thinking of you.
I wish that everything you said wasn't true.

I feel so guilty...
I didn't mean to turn your bright days blue.

But your mom provides for you better than I can.
I want you to know —
I'd fix this if I can...

How lucky am I to have a daughter like you?

But I am no good.
I don't deserve you.
I'm one unworthy man who is so sorry.

And I want you to know...
I will always love you no matter where —
No matter how.
I'll love you forever...
if you'd allow.