D is for Dysfunctional

D is for Dysfunctional and Daddy

D is also for divorce!  And DNA.  And depression.  Oh I’m on a roll now!  Anyway, I would appear to have a somewhat dysfunctional lineage.  My maternal grandfather was divorced.  My mother was divorced.  My father divorced twice.  And me?  Well I seem to have managed three divorces!  I have one half-sister, three half-brothers, and a step-sister.  There are three suicides and two attempted suicides in my pedigree too!.

You’ve already read about my father in ‘The Bread Incident’, but here are the lyrics for a blues (appropriate) song I wrote about him.

I’m the daughter of a bad seed

From an evil man

I try to forget him

Whenever I can

The sins of generations

Have fallen on me

I’ve spent a lifetime searching

For some tranquillity

One day I’ll climb above

Feeling bad about me

One day I’ll find I’ve climbed

To the top of the tree

Then I will be the golden one

Then I will hear

Hey Girl – well done

I’m the black sheep

Of the family

Never got round to doing

What was expected of me

I’ve read about generations

‘Bout sins passed on an’ such

Then I think about my Daddy

And that don’t please me too much