I thank you because without your absence, I wouldn’t understand the importance of strength and resiliency. The feeling of never being broken. I know right from wrong because that is something I taught myself to understand. I wipe away my own tears, push harder in life to get what I want cause I don’t have someone to provide for me, mother dead so I had to learn how to walk this journey alone. 

I thank you because I would never have seen despair in my mother’s eyes. Or the scent of lost hope cling my eyes, I hope you happy with the choices you made in your life And hey I’m doing great without you in my life (more like a blessing I must admit). 

I thank you because you showed me that no one should ever run away from something that they once loved. And even if you do, you have to give them fair warning but you never did cause you never wanted me in your life and apparently I became the son you never wanted, A whole disgrace I became to you.

Often I wish to learn to love you but I’m failing and guess I’ll never bring myself too, I hear other people singing praises to you but well only if they knew what I know or feel cos well my praise towards you is whole different.

Funny how life works out hey I’ve progressed without begging a cent from you maybe that’s why I’m failing to love you because I don’t see your importance in my life now, you abandon me when I really needed you the most and even today I still fail to forget nor forgive some of the words you used. Hey like you’re total stranger and I couldn’t care……..

Ricardo