I cried when i read this. I had an abusive father(he was my real dad) Everynight some one would be yelling screaming cursing. I remeber once my dad held a shiny pistol to the side of my moms head when i was five and said that if she did something(i was too young to remeber) he was going to blow her brains out. Then one christmas he knocked over our christmas tree and broke alot of stuff. I could never have friends over because i didn't want them to see the holes in the walls my dad had punched. And i remeber that he pushed my sister u against walls beat her senseless and then one night around eleven o' clock my mom and sister were talking very quietly. My mom told me to get dressed and wait in the car. moments lator there were some cops banging on our door waking up my dad. I watched from our car in the driveway. years lator i find out why my mom had left. my dad had been molesting my sister wow your poem helped me remember ALOT of memories.

I can truly relate to this because this is how i feel about my dad and i hope i can learn to FORGIVE him. But i loved the poem though.

i really like this poem. it is very touching.

This poem reminds me of me and my father. My father has never hit me, but he has come close to it and sometimes he really scares me. I know he loves me, but osmetimes i feel like he wishes he coulda had someone else, another boy maybe. But i can really relate to this poem, it is beautiful!

Such a real life experience. Honestly, every thought and emotion that was conveyed was the exact way I felt from the age of 8 years old. My father did many things to me and my mother, and all I wanted to do was be perfect, so that he would be proud of me. It really helps to know that someone else understands and can express it in a way that I have never been able to. My screen name also describes my whole mindset now. Anyway, the poem was excellent. I appreciate the fact that someone voiced how I feel on paper, so that many other people can read and understand. Now I know, I'm not alone.

I think my life would have been peaceful ,had there been no father to me ,to my beloved brother,to my dear sister!

I am truly moved by this poem. It shows the failed attemps to please a father by a young innocent child and a worthless coward of a mother who doesn't dare defend the life she had created with the monster who's destroying it right then.

i like this poem alot. it hits a certain spot in my heart because i know first hand of what child abuse is all about.

i love this poem. brings memories from my child hood. this tells my friend's past made here change so much yet still scared. it made me cry.

You always feel its your fault. you always feel your bad. thank you for writing what I cant speak.

i loved this poem it reminds me of my dad. i cried when i read this.

This is the most touching poems ever. *sniff sniff*

god bless you! your poem is just what people need to hear. my dad died two years ago, and he would hit me and tell me that he hated me, the last thing i said to him was "i wish you were dead" the next morrning my dad was liying on the floor dead, he had an anurisum, which flooded his lungs and he died. now that he is gone i have found out that he had an abusive childhood, so he didnt know any better. every night i pray for him and that he is happy where ever he is. if i could turn back the clock i would have never have said the things i did, he was a great dad sometimes, you just have to forget the bad things that happend in you life, the people who caused you pain and made you sad because i is normaly because of pain in their lives that makes them put pain into yours. i am only 16 so i have so much to learn about life, but i think my dad thoght me so much i would never know if i had never had him in my life. god rest his soul. xx

this poem hit me hard, i cried after reading it reminds me of my youth and how i was thank-you

I loved it it spoke to me and it made me cry a lot.

My dad is verbaly abusive. He dosent realize that he hurts my brother and i. He does things like not letting us use the computer, even if we need it for homework, and useing it to play games. Then when he gets our report card back he yells at us aggain. Once mom pointed this out to him, but he just yelled at her too. but look at me complaining, lots of kids dont even have parents. Anyway, I loved your poem. it realy related to me. thank you alot for letting me have the wonderful pleasure of reading it.

I LOVE THIS POEM I USE TO GET ABUSED BY MY FATHER

This poem reminds me of when I was a child!

My name is Crystal I am a 35 year old Mother of 6 who this has really hit home with 4 of my Children belonged to my husbond of 15 years the 2 oldest did not. this Man was very mean to my children and me also. I can look back now and see that they tried so hard not to make their Dad mad but when they did they would cry and tell me that they try to be good but they cant. they really beleived that it was them and not him. I have now got out of this realationship after 15 years and I can see everyday how much better my children are they laugh now and they get to be children for a change. but it took My second child who was 15 at the time to get preganat to make me see what it had done to all of them and to say not another child will I let come into this house so I left with my kids. now I am a Grandmother of a wonderful baby girl who was born June 18,2002. witch my daughter gave a name that fit this whole story her name is Destiny, so if anyone else reads this poem take it to heart and if you know in your heart that a Man is mistreating you are your children please listen to your heart and not let your head talk you out of it. these kids are put in our care by God and we really should see that they do not have to live in fear walking on egg shells all the time.

this was another sad poem, but i liked to read it

for the longest time...i have felt the same way about my father as you have described in your poem. that was when i was a child...I'm 23 yrs old now , he would never think to do that nowadays..if i ever talked to him...its been giving me alot of trouble lately for some reason...i can't stand the fact that my father doesn't care about me enough to see that i'm a human being like him who has feelings...and resent the fact that my mom just watched all those yrs....the scar on my face makes me sick everytime irun my fingers along it

I AM 36 YEARS OLD AND THIS MADE ME CRY WHY DID HE HATE ME SO MUCH?

it sure hits home. I was sexually abused like 1 out of every 4 americans are...this will touch many people sadly enough.

This poem brought tears to my eyes and saddness to my heart.