By: Essynce Smith

How dare you,

claim me as your daughter,

when really you’re just a stranger.

I don’t know you,

and you don’t know me.

No same noses, ears, eyes,

or anything of that nature.

We don’t share laughs or thoughts or feelings.

I don’t look up to you at all…

All you ever did was cause problems,

Problems that only that old apartment house on 24th street knew about.

It dare not repeat a word that was said,

and I dare not to either.

I’d watch as you’d beat her with your deceitful and unforgetable