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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=457303" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Letter To Gabriella</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=457303" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Should you find these words, and read them, one day-<br>Then, perhaps, any lingering doubts you may<br>Have had about my truth, will be erased! <br>If only you were privy to all the hopes emplaced, <br>All the wants of a Father, forlorn by his absence-<br>All the aspirations, rife, with the glory of your pleasance-<br>Then you would realize, any different thought<br>Would be tragic-as the truth, it would be, not! <br>I have come to accept that your mind may have been poisoned, <br>Though realize, as my Daughter, surely you questioned<br>All manner of assertions that may have been averse to me-<br>And reserved judgment, at least until we converse, to see<br>Where the truth really does lie; <br>As to why you have been deceived, or why<br>We have been forcibly estranged, for so long-<br>Suffice is to say, some know right, yet choose wrong-<br>And, unfortunately for us, one of them is charged with your guard! <br>I am sure you have gathered as much-it is not hard<br>To discern a person's essence, from how they treat<br>Their children-without so much as an attempt to be discreet, <br>You became a pawn, behind which a coward hid! <br>I shall never forget the damage done by what she did-<br>Nor could I-I have scars, mental and physical, both very real! <br>However, the most tragic part is that she was allowed to steal<br>Away the most precious gift I have ever been given-<br>And with it, all that for which I have so long, striven! <br>This cancer was emboldened and enabled<br>By a non-existent system, that had been fabled<br>As 'the great equalizer'-yet, sadly I have not seen this! <br>For, all who assume equality, surely have never been this<br>Mired iniquity as have I, and by extension, you-<br>The answer has been to fight fiercely-what else could I do? <br>Each day that passed without you was like another death-<br>Each battle I fought, I awaited with bated breath, <br>An outcome where your best intentions were advanced! <br>Alas, days became weeks, then months danced <br>Past, to become years-all the while, without you! <br>No one but I, has made it all about you! <br>My heart has bled for you, for many years-<br>My mind has oft-thought, and caused so many tears, <br>Not just for my loss, but your's as well-<br>The profound nature of which was nearly my death knell! <br>I will never stop fighting until the fighting is done-<br>Until I bear witness again, to your grace, it has not even begun! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=457303" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">-Maurice Harris,14 May 2011</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Maurice+Harris">Maurice Harris</a></strong></div>