Thank
You Dad
I don’t regret to share this need
To tell you now, your words I heed.
In “book-smarts”, I’m ignorance-freed –
I graduated…I did the deed.
Somewhere in life I went astray
I do not know, to this day
Why child-like me went away –
I couldn’t, Dad, I couldn’t stay.
My path was laid out, don’t you see
with the gods, you did plea
to break their hold and set me free
to follow society’s noble decree….
Of what I was to be
But there’s no guarantee
That you will ever see
What they meant for me.
You might argue, you might judge
To think that I might’ve needed a nudge
Please release me from the grudge
As the muddy road I continue to trudge.
Dad, you made me a girl, and not a boy
My gender I hope did not annoy
Your hopes and dreams did not destroy
That I wasn’t another “bundle of joy.”
I always, always have loved you
Somewhat true, through and through
Oh, I know it was often true
I did make you depressingly blue.
So wipe your tears, please do not weep
You pray the Lord, my Soul to keep
It’s in my Faith that I must leap
Love always, Your Little Rebel Black Sheep.
Dedicated to my father, Jack Allison
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