You're my biggest happiness yet so my biggest pain,
One day I feel the love, one day I feel the rejection,
You make me laugh just as easy as it is to make me cry
But no matter how much you hurt me I'll always love you.
You showed me what a hard worker’s hands look like,
And that was your way of showing love but you didn't
Realize I needed more, I needed words, I needed hugs, needed the things that
Gets saved in my soul.
The way I feel about my father inspired me to write this poem, is a type of love that has different emotions involved but still remains love. My writing process was pretty easy, but at the same time difficult since it is a theme that can make me sentimental, but I started with choosing a theme I found significant for myself then expressed how I felt as if I was to tell him personally. I really like poetry so I used this type of writing.
This poem is very relatable, making it very emotional. My favorite line is the first in the poem, "you're my favorite happiness yet so my biggest pain". A part that I really enjoyed is the how the writer understands the love the father has for them but describes how the father never displayed it the way they would have wanted them to.
--Lorena Bulnes
I like how you made your poem into a juxtaposition, where like even he made you happy he was also your pain. The last part really hit because you know that's how he shows love but you wish that it was more noticeable.
--Luis Valencia
While I was reading this poem, I came across this one phrase, "No matter how much you'll hurt me I'll always love you". It stood out to me because I could somewhat relate. My dad is not the best dad, he's done some hurtful stuff. Although he hurts us, I still love him. My favorite details of this poem was when she went deeper, and talked about how her dad was being a dad physically but not emotionally. I noticed that the author started off talking about the way she feels, and end the poem with what she needed from him. This piece definitely made me think of my mom and dad, and the feelings she has is relatable.
--Michelle Infante
This poet made me emotional because even though she was talking about her father, there is others out there that are in the same position with different relationships. It shows the pain and struggle we all go through. It may not be easy to live in it but it was said such as " saved in my soul" demonstrates what stays inside of us when we go through this kind of pain.
--Gabriela Caraballo
I love this poem it makes me feel so sweet because 10 years passed that I did not see my father but at the time he knew all changes, maybe passing the time was not easy but despite the circumstances I love him no matter what happens, whatever he does, he will always be my father ,and I love this sentence "But no matter how much you hurt me I'll always love you." It means that because it does not matter how your father treated you or how it was important is that he was always there for me even in distance but I felt his love.
--Jixi Castro
Something that I really loved was line 7 "I needed words, I needed hugs, needed the things that Gets saved in my soul" it's something that I really needed from my dad, but it is something I will never get since the day he decided mess up and disappoint us but its something that I don't take against him it just disappoints me. It's something that I don't really get from my mom either but she pushes me to do difficult things, things I cant do but at the end I figure them out. Your poem its somewhat relatable, and I loved it. I got to read how you express your feeling towards this topic.
--Sandra Carranza