ANAM FD May. 2015 | Page 83

A Sonnet About My Father Cambrie Cherry Shadows settle in the place you’ve left vacant I barely blinked, and you had vanished My childhood was robbed, my happiness taken And now, it seems, from your life I am banished. All of my life, I believed in a lie That this man who he claimed he was It wasn’t until his lack of goodbyes That I realized he was not one to trust A father is a man you depend on A father has arms that protect you A father is never gone for too long A father is a man you come running to Without warning, or reasons to discuss My father decided he should leave us. 83