For He Is Just A Man

My father is a man I never understood,

I can count on one hand

All our memories together

Remembering whatever I could

My father is a man I never loved,

As his absence altered my confidence

My highest moments, I simply shrug

My father is a man I never respected,

My womanhood is frail as

He’s my first rejection

My father is a man I never trusted,

His unconditional love comes with terms

An inner child, now corrupted

My father is a man I never knew,

As the phone works both ways

Even for those at the age of two

My father is a man I never found,

Despite the traces of him in my skin

He doesn't ever stay twice in the same town

My father is a man I never convinced,

That I, just his daughter

Needed him

My father,

For he is just a man.