Please Daddy
I wish that you'd just quit your job
Mommy tells me you work so hard for us
and that times are tough
but, I don't need my toys
or even to eat, much.

You always seem to come home so late
so angry
sometimes you've been drinking
sometimes you yell
sometimes you hit.

I try my hardest, not to make much noise
not to make much fuss.
But sometimes, sometimes I forget
I'm just too loud, or I forget to pickup
and Mommy doesn't see
but, it's not Mommy's fault, really Daddy
it's me, it's always me.

I hate when you hit her
I never knew I could be so scared
It's worse even than when you hit me
even though it hurts, I just try to remember
that you love me, and want for me to do better
and how much I love you Daddy.

Please Daddy, I love you so
and I know Mommy does too
I'm trying to do better, I really am
but, maybe I should just disappear.

Then you and Mommy can be happy again
like in the smiling pictures
hanging on the wall
showing how it was
before I came and ruined it all.