Invisible Daughter

You were always gone, a ghost In my life, while I was left with Her rage and her knife The nights were long, the Secrets grew, parties of chaos You never knew Fists and blades in the midnight air Running for cover, no one to care The lies she spun kept the world blind A fractured life, a fragile mind Where were you when the darkness came? When her fury burned, when I hid in shame? You say I'm not your problem now But I'll carry this pain-I don't know how I'm the daughter you chose to leave behind Invisible to a father who's no longer mine She hid it well, her twisted play, while you Were gone for weeks away Her games at night, the fights that screamed A waking nightmare, or so it seemed And when you returned, it all looked fine The mask she wore, her perfect design But I carried the bruises deep inside In a home where love had long since died Where were you when the darkness came? When her fury burned, when I hid in shame? You say I'm not your problem now But I'll carry this pain-I don't know how I'm the daughter you chose to leave behind Invisible to a father who's no longer mine She hid it wall, her twisted play, while you Were gone for weeks away Her games at night, the fights that screamed A waking nightmare, or so it seemed And when you returned, it all looked fine The mask she wore, her perfect design But I carried the bruises deep inside In a home where love had long since died Where were you when the darkness came? When her fury burned, when I hid in shame? But I'll carry this pain-I don't know how I'm the daughter you chose to leave behind Invisible to a father who's no longer mine I fine on the outside, but inside I break A love denied, a world of ache Invisible daughter, lost in the tide Forever unseen, forever denied.