Decade Poem by Diana Ballesteros

After a decade later, you want to leisurely walk into my sunshine's' life.
After a decade you somehow started to feel affection for her.
After a decade you want to recognize her.
After a decade you think time remained still and she is a 10-month-old baby?
After a decade ….
You come to interrupt her peace, I worked so hard to provide.
A decade later you remember you have an older daughter.
A decade later you think I would let you interfere her peace and her life, just for a pity prize fight that is not hers.
Am here to say you will have to wait another decade or more to attempt again and see if my sunshine lets you into her life.
She is ingenious to only see you as a friend she met at the park and knows she will never hear from again.
I let her know you wanted to know her, and the way her eyes seemed indifferent to the news of you. No smile appeared across her lips. A simple okay, thank you for letting me know.
My sunshine is not a game to play with. I provide her my life to keep her happy and resilient. I will not allow you to damage her in any little way.
It only took you a decade to plan out a way out. It's going to take more ingenious planning from your end, your phrases are feeble and have no importance.
Now that this nightmare is over, I want you to know, keep your family and make them happy. Let my sunshine alone, she is growing up to be a better version of us, what we couldn't give her together.
Both full of pride and anger, two forms of opposite lifestyles. Only a thread in common.
You choose to leave her life and let her grow up with out you. I choose to leave my life behind and give her everything I didn't have.
Please let her grownup in peace.