DEAR STRANGER,

DID YOU KNOW THAT I CRIED WHEN MY LIFE WAS TURNED INTO SOMETHING UNKNOWN...
I DONT KNOW WHAT IM GOING TO SAY NOR HOW TO EXPLAIN THE FEELINGS I HAD FOR 5 YEARS

WHEN YOU HURT ME, MY MIND TURNED DARK..
MY LIFE WAS NEVER THE SAME..KNOWING SOMEONE THAT WAS SUPOSE TO LOVE AND CARE
FOR YOU HURT YOU IN THE WAY..YOU NEVER THOUGHT OF
YEARS BEFORE, I TOOK THE PAIN..I TOOK THE FACT THAT YOU WERE AN ALCOHOLIC
THAT YOU THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY WHEN YOU MADE ME CRY...
WHEN YOU WOULD BEAT ME..UNTIL YOU THOUGHT I WOULD BE "GOOD"

I THOUGHT I WAS DOING SOMETHING GOOD FOR MYSELF...
I JOINED BOXING BECAUSE I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE PROUD OF ME
BEING SO ATHLETIC AND FORMING A LIFE FOR MYSELF...
I CAME HOME TO SHOW YOU....SHOW YOU MY TROPHY...
THE CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY..AND IT WAS MY FIRST TIME....
BUT, YOU TOOK IT AS A THREAT...

AT FIRST WHEN EVERYONE WAS THERE...
YOU BOOSTED ABOUT MY ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND YOU SMILED AND SAID YOU WERE PROUD..
BUT, I KNEW YOU WERE DRUNK....AN ALCOHOLIC IS WHAT YOU WERE...
EVERYONE WENT HOME AND THE ANGER CAME OUT...
TOLD ME I WAS NOTHING...KNOCKED ME TO THE GROUND...
ASKED "WHY I THOUGHT I WAS SO GOOD" WHY I THOUGHT I WAS BETTER THEN YOU....
FIRST YOU KICKED ME, THEN YOU STARTED TO HIT ME....
CONFUSION JUST RAN THROUGH MY MIND...I DIDNT KNOW WHAT TO DO

I JUST LAID THERE CRYING WHILE MY NOSE WAS BLEEDING
AND MY BODY ACHED FROM YOUR LEGS AND FISTS..BEATING AT THEM...
I SCREAMED FOR YOU TO STOP...
"DADDY STOP...DADDY NO"
I TOLD YOU THAT I WOULD QUIT...THAT I WOULDNT BOX ANYMORE...
BUT, PLEASE JUST STOP...

YOU STOPPED AND WENT DOWN THE HALL....
I LAID THERE WONDERING WHAT TO DO?
THEN YOU DID THE UNTHINKABLE...
SOMETHING A DADDY ISNT SUPOSE TO DO...
MY SCREAMING AND CRYING DIDNT STOP YOU...

DO YOU REMEMBER THAT?
CUZ I DO..I REMEMBER IT LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY...

WHO IS THIS GUY? WHO HAVE YOU BECOME...
THIS ISNT MY DAD DOIN THIS TO ME...
WHO IS IT?

DEAR STRANGER.......

WHERE ARE YOU AT NOW?