Tag: Father

• “WHO ARE YOU?”

  

  I am Kiddo, I am Sez, I am Bread and Water, I am my mother’s child and my father’s daughter, I am mum to Tally and Reecey-Breecey, I am wife to the only other man who sees me, I am exhaustion personified, anxiety made flesh, I am a girl who has more than once toed…

  Serena Malcolm

  5 February, 2025

  Grief, Heartbreak

  Alzheimers, daughter, dementia, Father, grief, loss, love, memory, poem, poetry

• First Love

  

  You held my hand when I was young, I looked up and saw more than my father, I saw the first man I would ever love, And the mould for each man thereafter. You showed me the beauty of strength when it’s blended with a gentle core, How to appreciate all that I have, While still pushing…

  Serena Malcolm

  21 June, 2015

  Love

  daughter, family, Father, future, lessons, life lessons, love, poem, poetry, relationships, teacher

• Example

  

  My Daddy hitted a man, There was lots of blood and I sawed that when daddy hitted the man, the man went to sleep on the floor, And daddy had on that face, Like the one when he hitted my mum and she cried and cried and cried and kept asking him what she had done,…

  Serena Malcolm

  23 May, 2015

  Other

  abuse, bad example, childhood, children, control, domestic abuse, domestic violence, emotion, emulation, examples, Father, food for thought, lessons, life, life lessons, Parenting, parents, poem, poetry, role models, setting examples, son, thought-provoking