a daughter sits to read to her father <br />an empty seat staring back at her <br />she starts with a word and realizes its no use <br />she sits outside on the curb in the rain <br />looks to the sky and screams 'daddy why can't you keep me dry? ' <br />she's tired of being left alone <br />in an abusers home <br />her laugh is created from the movies she sees <br />while she sits in the basement and turns up the volume so she can't her the screams <br />her smile is painted on by a great magicain <br />this child is all alone and falling in love with scars on her arms <br />she prays only to feel disconnected with the world <br />she grows better at making her screams silent <br />just so she won't get beaten down <br />even though she already went through the ground <br />with bruises on her body and scars on her heart <br />she lays on the bathroom floor <br />and drenched in her own blood she whispers, <br />'daddy why can't you keep me dry? '<br /><br />Lois doyle<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/daddy-why-can-t-you-keep-me-dry/
