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Your Daughter

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I chew cinnamon gum because it reminds me
of the way you used to smell on average days.
I burn pumpkin and spice scented candles
so that it's your favorite holiday all year round.
My favorite color is orange because it's most like
the autumn sunsets that you love so much.

And I love these things because I am your daughter.

I choose comedies more often than not because it helps me
remember the laugh lines around your lips.
I cook too much food at dinner time because you always say,
"It's better to have too much than not enough."
I tell everyone who's never seen them that my eyes are green
because I want to believe they look like yours.

And I do all these things because I am your daughter.

I put family first, even before my own needs
because it's what you would have done.
I cheer for football and baseball teams though I'm scorned
because they were your favorites.
I only started writing these sad excuses for poems
because I found a book of your masterpieces.

And I don't know how to be anything
but your daughter.

And I cry myself to sleep on the nights that matter most.
I write you letters every single month without fail.
I hide this pain deep down, though you would have seen through my mask.
And I care more than I should after seven lonely years.

Because I am your daughter.
And without you, I've lost myself too.
Almost that time of the year again. I know I shouldn't dwell. It's just...after days like today, it's kind of hard not to...
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pseudovanity's avatar
if i could hug you, i would. :hug:
you are an exceptional writer, a beautiful mind.