{"id":68625,"date":"2020-06-27T18:01:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68625"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:01:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:01:13","slug":"daddy-dearest-brandy-goodman-poem-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/daddy-dearest-brandy-goodman-poem-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Daddy Dearest (Brandy Goodman Poem #10)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daddy Dearest (Brandy Goodman Poem #10)<\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Mom said that he was great<\/em><\/p>\n

While he was around,<\/em><\/p>\n

But when they split up<\/em><\/p>\n

He was nowhere to be found.<\/em><\/p>\n

He\u2019d come and go when it pleased him<\/em><\/p>\n

And lied any other time<\/em><\/p>\n

His priority wasn\u2019t us,<\/em><\/p>\n

He had a new family to find.<\/em><\/p>\n

In walked another man,<\/em><\/p>\n

She wanted us to have a father,<\/em><\/p>\n

But when it comes down to it,<\/em><\/p>\n

She really shouldn\u2019t have bothered.<\/em><\/p>\n

He was working all the time<\/em><\/p>\n

Out on the road<\/em><\/p>\n

And when he was home<\/em><\/p>\n

Mostly he\u2019d just explode.<\/em><\/p>\n

Old Daddy Dearest<\/em><\/p>\n

Made promises he\u2019d rarely keep<\/em><\/p>\n

And new Daddy Dearest<\/em><\/p>\n

Beat Momma down at our feet.<\/em><\/p>\n

There were several better men<\/em><\/p>\n

Orbiting our life<\/em><\/p>\n

But she didn\u2019t want to be,<\/em><\/p>\n

Anyone else\u2019s cause of strife.<\/em><\/p>\n

As the years passed his temper increased<\/em><\/p>\n

And she thought of getting us away.<\/em><\/p>\n

But anywhere we went<\/em><\/p>\n

He\u2019d find us in less than a day.<\/em><\/p>\n

He\u2019d show up and cause trouble<\/em><\/p>\n

At times the police were called,<\/em><\/p>\n

But she wouldn\u2019t let them take him<\/em><\/p>\n

She was caught between love and hate walls.<\/em><\/p>\n

He drove everyone out of her life<\/em><\/p>\n

And continued to beat her down.<\/em><\/p>\n

After a while it became easier<\/em><\/p>\n

Because no one came around.<\/em><\/p>\n

She stuck with him so long<\/em><\/p>\n

All her friends and family opted out<\/em><\/p>\n

And we began to hate him<\/em><\/p>\n

Of that there is no doubt.<\/em><\/p>\n

Of all the men she could have picked,<\/em><\/p>\n

She chose to pick the worst.<\/em><\/p>\n

But at the start he pretended to be good<\/em><\/p>\n

And she was in love with him at first.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today it all still goes on<\/em><\/p>\n

And she\u2019s practically wasting away.<\/em><\/p>\n

She sits around numbly<\/em><\/p>\n

Praying today is her last day.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daddy Dearest (Brandy Goodman Poem #10)\u00a0 Mom said that he was great While he was around, But when they split up He was nowhere to be found. He\u2019d come and go when it pleased him And lied any other time His priority wasn\u2019t us, He…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1364,"featured_media":69233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69301,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68625\/revisions\/69301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}