Time Heals All Things

I forgive you. 

I love you.

With a love that would burn you alive.

If you ever felt a spark of it. 

If you ever let yourself

Forgive me for not being what you wanted.

Forgive me 

You stubborn old man. 

Don't take this to your grave.

What  happened to us? 

Why couldn't you love me

I tried so hard

Daddy

  

Bit my pretty red heart in two.
I was ten then when they buried you.
At twenty I tried to die.
And get back, back, back to you.
I though even the bones would do.


excerpt from the poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath