To My Daughter, If You Ever Hear the Other Version First
There will come a day, maybe sooner than I hope,when you’ll type my name into a search bar. You’ll find
These are the thoughts, the feelings, the apologies I never got to say to certain people or about certain situations. They’re raw. They’re vulnerable. It’s just me, writing out what’s in my heart, hoping for some understanding, or maybe just a way to make peace with things I couldn’t before. It’s very personal.
There will come a day, maybe sooner than I hope,when you’ll type my name into a search bar. You’ll find
I’ve written this a hundred times.In my head.On paper.In drafts I deleted before they finished saving. It always started the
There’s no easy way to begin this. No clever metaphor or poetic detour. Just the quiet truth:I let people down.
There are things I wish I could say.Not to fix it.Not to win you back.Just to put the weight down,