Every spring she clears
Out her life clears
Away all her unnecessary
Boyfriends and friends that she
Has collected in the past
Year and makes room for new
Emotions to fill the void
That her father leaves
Whenever he calls to
Convince her that she is not good
Enough to deserve
Him as a father, she is not
The boy he was promised when
He gave birth
To the idea
Of having
Babies take his wife
And sacrifice
Time from his
Goals and ambitions and
His horrific fear his life
Might end without ever
Ending this fear
That his reason for being
Is nothing more than life
Producing life for the sake of
Producing life and he has
No control over his
Body or his mind or his
Fate that makes him
Exactly what he has become and
He thinks is it
No more real than this?
Than this?