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I have a father.

A man who has dealt with much.
A man who has given me life and then saved it again.
My father has four brothers,
Some that show their love, some that can't or won't.
My father's father was a violent man,
A man of the christian god
Who married a woman of the christian god,
They beat my father and when
My father's father's heart ceased to provide life,
My father returned and took his father's debts.
His sister was gone along with two brothers
But my father came back
Back to carry the burden, back again.
In my life I've never said to him
"You couldn't understand"
For that is the line I use on myself.