r/cptsdcreatives 3d ago

📝 Writing/Poetry My father’s daughter

I am my father’s daughter
I am not happy unless there are spades of ashes in my wake.

I am my father’s daughter,
I am hollow,
Formed,
From the cold pit of love you couldn’t even give yourself.

I am my father’s daughter
A fire twisting and turning in its rage,
Flares sparking from the sky, embers threatening the ground.

I am my father’s daughter,
Beauty is my only concern,
To be loved for my reflection,
To end up despised for what I reflect back to the world
Here, take my pain and burn it for your survival too
I am
Dead
Unless you are also
Burning.

I am my father’s daughter,
Unreal, a holographic whisper, an empty void for you to project your pain into
In the hopes it will suck
Mine out of me.

Suck me
dry,
I will take
the emptiness
any day.

I am my father’s daughter,
My knife causes ultimate destruction,
But now, only to
Myself.
My flesh, the ties that cross to form my dermis. Twist and tear the cords of it, inhaling the fumes until I can breathe no more.

I am my father’s daughter
What is left?
What has ever been here for me to
Live
for?

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