Daddyfrank Art

DARKNESS TO LIGHT

Only if there was a rainbow to fade in the beginning
If only there were feelings that turned to fear.
Did you ever see the gold before it stopped sparkling under the sun?
I sat in the dark, whispering, I’m still here.
Smiles were all around me, but none felt true.
My life was in the darkness before itbegan.
My world was turning so fast and out of control.
I tried to run away.
I lost my composure.
I feared the night.
I was there.
when it finally got too much.
When I give up the fight
I was alone.
You came along and said we’d find the light together.
Dull rainbows started to appear.
Things started to shinethrough.h
Pieces started to come together.
I’m headed out of the dark into a brighter future with the support and love of people who have chosen to be my family—the people who have shown me that they care.

09/12/2023

Goodbye rocks
Uncle Mann once told me rocks are pretty when you have a strong working boat to keep them on, but if you’re already in the water and going under rocks won’t save you, you have to let them sink on their own; otherwise, you’ll sink to I was a teenager with the idea of saving my family by fixing everything for them all, and it was so overwhelming. My older brother wanted so much one day, and then he’d throw me away as soon as somebody else showed they cared about him. My biomum wanted me to tell the government how fit to be a mum she was; she wanted me to lie. I didn’t, and I still don’t know how to be a sister to my biological sisters because I wasn’t their sister. When we were at home, I changed the nappies, I made the bottles, and I told mum when they were sad or sick. I screamed at teachers for my siblings, packed their lunches, and walked them to school. I made them cabbage sandwiches because I didn’t know the difference between that and lettuce. Dad did what he could when he was home, but between working, him being emotionally unavailable, and mum being a ju**ie with narcissistic tendencies, everyone who walked through our front door had no idea how much abuse and neglect was taking place. I was the kid who would fight anyone at the drop of a hat. I wouldn’t listen. I was the bad kid, and my mum was at her wits end, but at home, I was the kid yelling at my mum, so her outburst hit me instead of my siblings. I was the clumsy kid who walked into things or fell over. I was the kid mums dealers got to take into a room or home for a night. I was the kid who was so unlovable that no one wanted me. I was trouble. I was behind my peers. I was untameable, untrusting, and unforgiving. I was under attack, so I was violent, rude, and rebellious. I wasn’t wanted. These are the rocks that are pulling me under. These are the rocks I’m letting go of. The rocks I’m moving on from. I’m going to find my boat, even if I have to say goodbye to the people I tried to raise. I love the people. I’ll miss the people that were supposed to love me. Blood never saved me.

09/12/2023

Silent
I sit silent but I have fought wars in the darkest parts of my mind body and soul I have given my all to other but not to my self I have shown up for people who have let me down in such a unforgiving way I have let these same people tear me to pieces while I sat there silent I’m not silent because I’m weak I’m silent because I know if I was to drop to their level I’d be the person they are trying to tell people I am and I am that person when I have to be I hate their actions and words but not the person they once were to me I still care so deeply and I understand the pain they have felt and are feeling that’s why I sit there silent while they tear me down the wars I fight within myself are the ones I gotta worry about their the ones that could take me to far they’re the one that could kill me you think I’m weak because I’m not fight you but I’m weak because I’m always fighting myself and never truly winning my mind soul and body have never known a cease fire all they have ever known are the shocks the explosion the screams the land that is destroyed and to scarred to recover the rivers of tears that turn into oceans with torturous swells and rips that will surely drown me given chance but I sit silent

21/11/2023

The journey you’ll take (the story will come later)🖤💛❤️

01/11/2023

04/07/2023

Hope 50cm x130 $700
Carry the hope for the future the hope that we can come together as one, the hope that we can continue to move forward to a positive and brighter future. The hope that no child will get left behind no matter who they are or what they do or where that come from.the hope that we can be one big loving kind supportive and caring community. So our future generations can pick up the pieces where past generations have dropped them.

23/05/2023

Hands the things that can give and take life if you allow them
Once you get used to being beaten by them its hard to see the love and comfort they can give
You end up longing to feel the comfort of a hug or having your tears wiped away but you know if someone was to try you’d recoil away from their touch