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    Daddies Don’T Cry: Ballad of Tra’
    Daddies Don’T Cry: Ballad of Tra’
    Daddies Don’T Cry: Ballad of Tra’
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    Daddies Don’T Cry: Ballad of Tra’

    By Lionel Scott

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    This is a writing for men, those who value the influence of a father on the character development of his children and teens who choose to runaway. The poetry is the result of a daughter running away from home. National statistics show that as many as 70 % of current and former inmates sited a broken or nonexistent relationship with their father as the major negative aspect of their lives. The author travels a gamut of emotions in an effort to recapture and redefine himself as a father and man. In the writings it is obvious that he feels separated from himself. Anyone who loses a child can relate to such a feeling. He speaks and also listens to the daughter. He believes if he becomes the cosmopolitan parent he will gain her. His emotions jog the distance from anger to sadness to hate to self-blame to temporary insanity.
    The book is organized in six musical sessions. In the first the daughter speaks in an authentic voice of adolescence. The father then responds with tender words that he believes will remind her of the value their friendship. Afterwards, the father and mother express their deepest fears as they relate nightly their concern for the daughter. Session four sounds like a series of songs of hat. Fortunately the father, who sings lead, completes the performance quickly. Session five finds the father not as agitated. He sings tunes that he hopes his daughter will listen to one day.
    The final session may be the best writing of the sessions. The father leaps through several genres of musical style in a last effort to reach his daughter. Individually these are mere contemporary lyrics. Collectively they are more because they offer a fresh, unique and believable expression of emotions. Any musically-centered person i.e. musician, performer would do well visit this concert.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMar 14, 2012
    ISBN9781468540093
    Daddies Don’T Cry: Ballad of Tra’
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    Lionel Scott

    L. O. Scott was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He has been a math teacher for 12 years. He earned a B.A. in history from Wayne State University; A teaching degree in math from University DetroitMercy and an M.A. in Education from Wayne State University. He has written, entered and won a few local poetry contests. He has also written, directed, produced and acted in numerous skits and plays at work and at his church. He is a member of the youth and Sunday school ministries at the Hartford Church of Detroit. His hobbies include reading, writing, sports, chess, coaching robotics and landscaping/gardening. Writing has always been his major love. This is his first published collection.

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      Daddies Don’T Cry - Lionel Scott

      Contents

      Dedication

      Bags

      1-28-11

      Bags

      part II

      Bags

      part III

      2-25-11

      SESSION I [THE DAUGHTER SPEAKS]

      What If

      What Is Now

      Who I Am

      Slap Me / Curse Me Gently

      One Right Eye

      Sleep on the Floor

      Give Me My Piece

      A Father 4 Me

      Big Brown Box

      SESSION II [THE FATHER RESPONDS]

      Sweets for a Sour Day

      I Owe U You

      Purity

      Why I Touch Your Hair

      SESSION III [NIGHTS OF EMPTINESS]

      Night Two

      Red

      Night 3

      Night 4

      Everywhere

      His Hands

      Hair Back / Forth

      Thank You

      Be Careful of the Glass and Flowers

      Dream of A Daughter in the Midnight Rain

      Black

      Identity

      SESSION IV [BITTERAIDE]

      Destroy Your Home

      Destroy Your Home

      Spoken 4 You

      I Don’t Wear A weave

      SESSION V [CONVERSATIONS/MEMORIES]

      Pants for a New Boy

      That Gray Dress

      Gift B 4 A Father’s Hand

      Impatient Achilles

      Remember When

      Empty

      Movie

      Mama—I’m A Buckeye Again

      Knock on Your Door

      Stand 4 U

      SESSION VI [SONGS OF THE WOUNDED]

      Moment 2 Minutes (L)

      Bee MV

      BMV

      Breeze of Yesterday

      Be My Maid

      Tell the Children I’m Gone

      Midnight Love

      Lost / Found

      Bargain Boy

      Do You Know

      Can You Hold Me Now

      You Don’t Have to Believe Me

      Dead Love

      Stumble Like A… .

      Almost

      Comb Your Hair

      Searching Behind Every Corner

      Shattered

      I Don’t Know the Name??????

      Gone Today Two

      No More Little

      I Told U So

      When Daddy Gets Home

      ‘Falling Star"

      Airplane

      GNUL

      Dedication

      To all the children who are lost or stolen from themselves;

      To fathers like Elder Cleavan Futch who lost, searched for and rediscovered his daughter;

      To Lionel Davis who found his daughter and

      To my mothers: Juanita, Mildred, Janis, Mother Dorthy Hall, Clara Bradley and Lula Bates

      Finally, to Kekeia, Ashley Z., Danielle C., Josh the Boss, Simone and my friend Lisa

      This is a set of poems that was written to encourage fathers who have lost daughters. Such lost could have been the result a daughter who was taken by a relative or stranger, a daughter who left home of her own choice or a daughter who was lost due to violence, disease or natural death. I use a broad definition of daughter. I wrote not just to men who have daughters physically missing but men who have broken communication with young girls they have raised, mentored or fathered. In my case the daughter I lost ran away. She was not my birth daughter but one whom I briefly encountered and made an effort to mentor.

      The data on runaways and missing children show a trend towards abuse of the children. In 2009,which are the most current FBI report statistics (NCIC), there are more than 534,974 missing children. 309,089 are female. Not included in that number are under 18 years olds who are runaways or throwaways. This country’s legal agencies and police departments do not and possibly won’t ever have sufficient resources to locate so many missing children and return them to their families. I have wondered, how do fathers and families deal with the penetrating pain of a lost child.

      Many children become victim to human traffickers, local thugs or associates who place them in more harmful situations than they ran from. Many people view the problem of missing children only from the perspective of the mother. It is my goal to consider the pains that result from losing a relationship with a child. I believe fathers value the relationship and the opportunity to instruct and direct a child who carries their seed. That seed can be natural, intellectual, social or spiritual. Although most men are socialized to believe they should not show sadness publically. In the confines of their hearts I know tears can wash them away from the man they want to be. This book of lyrics and poetry is written for men who just can’t release their pain.

      Although I am a Christian I have written each poem from a Unitarian perspective. My concern was towards producing a work that would be useful to grieving fathers not to make proselytes. Never the less I accept that the only peace I have experienced during my time of sadness was a direct result of accepting that God was aware of and working through the situation to bring peace and joy to me.

      Each poem is written about a personal experience. Though in expressing a gamut of emotions collectively, they were written to state one shared theme: daughter come home. Some may be difficult and poorly understood as they express raw anger. Hopefully most fathers will understand these and appreciate my honesty. Once again this is my story it cannot ever relate to every emotional curve or dip fathers experience when faced with a missing loved one.

      The book is a compilation of poetry, lyrics and dreams. Each verse is written about a personal experience some actual, some imagined. The universal underlying theme is the father wants to continues to have a loving relationship with his daughter. In his words the father runs a gamut of emotions. He is angry,

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