Do You See Me, Father?

Why don't you want to know me?

Why does my voice spark your anger,

My words met with weary sighs?

Why is everyone else enough,

But never me?

Why do you turn away?

Why won't you speak to me?

Why won't you reach for me,

Father?

I'm grown now,

My life no longer under your roof.

Yet you didn't know me then,

And you don't know me now.

You've never truly seen

Your own daughter.

Do you know who I am,

Father?

Or am I just a whisper

You refuse to hear.