Daddy, I Need You

Daddy, I need you

I'm looking, but I can't find you

Where did you go? I know you know...

Daddy, please help me

If you could only see what I see

maybe you'd be scared too.

Maybe you'd wonder what you were supposed to do.

Would you run away?

Would you fight?

Would you stay?

Would you say that it's not right?

Would you just pray?

Just hope that everything is gonna be allright.

Daddy, why did you forgive him?

Why do you still say that he's your friend?

He's not mine. And I know you didn't ask, but Daddy, I'm not fine.

I can't look the other way.

I can't make the pain or fear just float away.

Daddy, I needed you.

When I was 3 years old, Daddy, where were you?

When I told you, Daddy, he made me do it.

Daddy, I was scared and he made me touch him there.

I didn't want to.

When I was 3 years old, Daddy, how could you?

You don't even look back with regret.

You said to forgive and to forget.

Make amends. Just be friends.

Invite him over once again.

But you were my father.

Why would you stay friends with the man that molested your only daughter?

And why would you invite him over?

He deserved much more than a cold shoulder.

Maybe a broken shoulder.

Daddy, I needed you.

But you turned your back on me

and left me to feel rejected.

Unprotected and neglected.

Daddy, I'm scared

but I don't need you anymore.

You weren't there for me when I needed you the most

and I had to learn to take care of myself.

Leave my heart up on the shelf

and close it off to anyone I ever loved.

Because Daddy, you taught me I couldn't count on anyone.

Not even you..

Especially you

because when I needed you

You never needed me.