Dear Dad,

I want you to beg for my forgiveness

Like I have begged for your attention.

How could someone treat me better

In five months

Than you've treated me

In seventeen years?

I've waited for you to come home with roses

And I've waited for you to hug me after work.

I've waited for a gift on Valentine's day

That isn't chocolate

Which I've told you one hundred times

That I hated.

I've waited for you to tell me the good about myself

Instead of picking every bad thing

And hurling it at me

Whenever

You

Get

The

Chance.

I've waited for the love of a father

That I had no idea could be this amazing.

And there's only one reason that it's 99% 

And not 100,

And that's because

It's not you.

Seventeen years .