A letter to my father, postage unpaid


You miserable fuck. Do you think I forgot all the things you said to me How you would go on screeds about the deserving and undeserving The righteous and the degenerate With your nose held at those who suffered? I still remember Do you think I forgot all the times you hit me or beat me? Telling me your dividing line of right and wrong Or even just as a joke I was young but I still remember Do you think I forgot all the times you screamed at me? For dishes unwashed or laundry undone or slight mistakes made or even simple disagreements? Oh I remember. I also remember you sitting on the couch lazing about telling me the day doesn't end when I come home from school. I remember. I remember you manipulating me into doing your work for nothing because no one in their right mind would work with you. I remember. But what I remember most of all is the hate you spewed you vile fuck. I remember every bit of your disgusting rambling fueled by proto alt right conservative pundits. Oh I really do remember. I remember the fear I held that one day you would discover who I really was. Not a little shit stain like you. But someone who was becoming seen, becoming loved, becoming held in something other than contempt. I hid myself deep deep down and laughed at your attempts at jokes, nodded at your attempts at politics, followed in your shit filled footsteps. I got free of you. Before you understood. With the tools I had gained through a lifetime of being manipulated. I got free of your vicious grasp. The scars will stay but I got free. Now. I am something you could have never imagined. I am a loved partner of many. A friend to even more. People hold thoughts of me fondly for the most part. I have my flaws but I work on them as much as I can. I am nothing you could know. Nothing you could understand. Not that you ever could understand me in the first place. I will continue to bloom and you will rot and best of all you will never, ever see me again. Not here and not in the next world. Farewell you miserable fuck. This letter to be burned.