Four years old with my back to the door, all I could hear was 

the family war. Your selfish hands always expecting more, am 

I your child, or just a charity ward? You have a hollowed out 

heart but it’s heavy in your chest, I try so hard to fight it, but 

it’s hopeless. Hopeless, you’re hopeless. Oh Father, please Father,

 I’d love to leave you alone but I can’t let you go. Oh Father, 

please Father, put the bottle down for the love of a daughter. It’s 

been five years since we’d spoken last,, and you can’t take back 

what we never had. I can be manipulated only so many times, 

before even “I love you” starts to sound like a lie. 

You have a hollowed out heart but it’s heavy in your chest, I try 

so hard to fight it, but it’s hopeless. Hopeless, you’re hopeless. 

Oh Father, please Father, I’d love to leave you alone but I can’t 

let you go. Oh Father, please Father, put the bottle down for the 

love of a daughter. Don’t you remember I’m your baby girl? 

How could you push me out of your world? Lie to your flesh and 

your blood? Put your hands on the ones that you swore you loved? 

Don’t you remember I’m your baby girl? How could you throw 

me right out of your world? So young when the pain had begun, 

now forever afraid of being alone.