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Samantha Lazar's avatar

My dad + me= omg so much therapy and pain and forgiveness and anger and acceptance and mourning and loss and gone

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H. R. Sinclair's avatar

It’s a terribly tough tightrope to walk, family relations, and relationships at all, but especially with those who brought us into this world. When it’s hard, you want to hate, but when you breathe, it’s hard to hate no matter how much you want to. I’m still walking the tightrope, I’m sorry you had to 💛

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Samantha Lazar's avatar

💕

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Samantha Lazar's avatar

Saracen! 😍😍😍😍😍

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Jozef Cain's avatar

I love the spoken word. Your voice is powerful. Love is such a bittersweet thing sometimes. I think that absence may have had something to do with why you're such a formidable poet. One Love.

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H. R. Sinclair's avatar

I think you're very right Jozef. Love is bittersweet and all too powerful in its positive and negative forms. Thank you for your kindness, as always. One Love.

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Black Coffee Creative's avatar

One British love 🇬🇧

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Janaka Stagnaro's avatar

“I miss my dad”

four words never uttered

out my mouth,

but broken walls

no longer hold

what’s inside.

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BJ Dawson's avatar

My relationship with my dad is pretty complicated too. I can relate so much to this.

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H. R. Sinclair's avatar

It can be tough, but nice to know we’re not alone in this.

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Nevena Pascaleva's avatar

That's poetry and prose at the same time. Love it.

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H. R. Sinclair's avatar

Thank you, Nevena x

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Sana M Khan's avatar

Despite what we say or want to believe but having both our parents in our life is a huge blessing that a lot don't realise. Children even if they don't say crave for the presence of both mom and dad.

It's a beautiful piece H.R.

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H. R. Sinclair's avatar

It’s immeasurable the effect a distant or nonexistent parent can have on a kid. We all crave presence, for sure.

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Sana M Khan's avatar

Somethings cannot be changed but I truly wish that now you are happy and at a better place , H.R:)

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Debdutta Pal's avatar

Fuck, this made me cry.

Life would be more complicated without poetry, so there's that. <3

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H. R. Sinclair's avatar

Never a truer word spoken, Debdutta.

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H. R. Sinclair's avatar

I appreciate you, Harper. Thank you. So true that we miss the potential relationship. What we could have had. You’re definitely not in this alone.

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