My Daughter Monologue

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My throat is burning from all the yelling, yet not a word has escaped my lips. Can you not hear me? Can you not see my pain that is in plain sight, stated in the shadows situated so heavily underneath my eyes? I'm calling out to you; I'm waving the flag. I'm sorry I didn’t try harder, that I didn't try to fix what went wrong. Only the cracks had become too deep, too damaged. I'm beyond repair. No amount of therapy will ever be able to mend me. I'm the broken toy in the shop, the one that gets left on the shelf. I'm the top that got ripped that night, the night that you regret; I remain in the draw never to venture out of this dark space again. I'm the thing that you regret most; I was a mistake, I see it I your eyes everyday. I'm a reminder …show more content…

But truth be told I know why he decided to abandon ship, it was sinking, faster than the titanic. As many humans do my mother suffered from something called an existential crisis, basically this is when a person questions their very existence, I know what you're thinking, surely a mother would think maybe one of the purposes for her existence is to be a mother? Turns out my mother didn’t willingly apply for the job, you see I was a mistake and my mum revels in the delight of telling me this on several occasions. She goes into great detail about how she could've been so much more if it wasn’t for my existence, my reply is that I didn’t ask to be here, to walk this god forsaken planet. To be treated with the indecency that I am, to have to watch the people I love become consumed with their own lives, and for me to be left in the background desperately trying to will myself to believe that one day things will change. One day someone will give a damn about me. That someone will care about how I feel instead of focusing solely on their self-consumed incredulous self! I wont even begin to explain who that thought was about, it’s a long and confusing path to start heading down, so instead im going to narrowly avoid it and cross the

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