Daddy's Girl

[unsolved_Mystery]

Daddy's Girl


Something has changed
You have locked the door to your safe
And forgotten the key
There is pain where laughter used to
Be

I watch your aging eyes
Search the room for something
That isn't there
Instead you find us

Sorry to let you down

We ride in scathingly cold silence
The houses fly past
Full of people whose fathers
Love
Where they are proud

I hate that I care so much
I wish I could ignore the tension
Thick, like the caramel that Grandpa makes
Filling every silence

I can't airbrush it out anymore
You are unhappy
But you will not speak, will not
Cry

You push us away with your all-knowing hands
The strength in your shoulders has gone
You are not my hero anymore.