{"id":3259,"date":"2022-10-20T20:49:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T20:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/?page_id=3259"},"modified":"2022-11-07T16:11:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T16:11:15","slug":"daddy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/writers-house-review\/vol-3-winter-2022-23\/daddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<h4><em>Eva Iskhakova<\/em><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Daddy\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaddy\u201d was a foreign word<br \/>\nThat I never understood.<br \/>\nOne that never escaped my lips,<br \/>\nOr fluttered into another\u2019s ear<br \/>\nAs my younger self doggy paddled,<br \/>\nHesitantly, through the murky ocean water.<\/p>\n<p>What my friends felt in piggy back rides<br \/>\nI felt in forced phone calls, until those<br \/>\nToo, ceased in due time.<br \/>\nThey saw in family game nights<br \/>\nWhat I saw in quiet dinner tables<br \/>\nSet for two, not three.<\/p>\n<p>There was a look of pity,<br \/>\n(Or was it judgment?) in every eye<br \/>\nThat witnessed my pink colored<br \/>\nPiece of cardstock that read \u201cmom,\u201d but<br \/>\nWhat was a confused seven year old<br \/>\nTo do in arts and crafts on Father\u2019s Day?<\/p>\n<p>With time, they spoke of camping trips<br \/>\nAnd baseball games, but their backyard<br \/>\nAdventures were my hours spent home alone,<br \/>\nAs my mother worked, constantly,<br \/>\nTo handwrite a collection of numbers on a piece<br \/>\nOf paper that came in the mail every month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaddy\u201d is still a foreign word<br \/>\nThat when spoken about my being,<br \/>\nSeems to always have the word \u201cissues\u201d<br \/>\nFollowing its delivery, but never stands alone,<br \/>\nJust as my psyche never stands without<br \/>\nThe absence of the man that word defines.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Unhealthy Attachments<\/strong><\/h5>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What have we done to each other?<\/p>\n<p>We are one endless cycle of resentment<\/p>\n<p>Except for when we are a parcel of childlike love<\/p>\n<p>Boundless in spite of winds of change<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are a bundle of commitment issues<\/p>\n<p>Except for when our fingertips graze their other half<\/p>\n<p>In a crowded room of naive bystanders so clueless<\/p>\n<p>To the paragraphs our fleeting touch speaks<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are the worst blend of fire and gasoline<\/p>\n<p>Burning so vivaciously until all in sight are cinders<\/p>\n<p>Except for when our flames align in a passion<\/p>\n<p>Strong enough to erase any doubts from the face of the earth<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are the epitome of a lucid dream<\/p>\n<p>So riveting we force ourselves to stay asleep for one more minute<\/p>\n<p>Of pure bliss amidst the gut-wrenching reigns of reality<\/p>\n<p>Only to realize we cannot remain comatose forever<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are everything our hearts desire until we aren\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>Until those hearts implode with the traumas of their minds<\/p>\n<p>Until our tightrope bears the inevitable question yet again<\/p>\n<p>What have we done to each other<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What euphoria have we discovered between our two souls<\/p>\n<p>What prompts us to settle for bittersweet suffering<\/p>\n<p>What has our love brought forth<\/p>\n<p>What lengths must we go to in order to part?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Eva Iskhakova<\/strong> is a sophomore at Rutgers University, graduating in 2025. 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