She rose to answer the phone/her fifty-two year old father had been thrown out of a five story window/both arms broken/an addict can never be friends with his dealer/those words ran through her mind as she fell to the floor with eyes full of water/weeping not for sympathy but for his salvation/hating every man that said hello to her /remembering the abandonment/the shame/the embarrassment of having his last name/the little girl in her wiped her mascara stained cheeks/she wept for her father’s life/Satan’s joy/another Black man/remembering the last time she hugged him/her hands against bones/all five six of her towering him/ a small man with big dreams and crack vile visions/her life lived in the basement of resentment/ hoping her God would forgive him although she herself couldn’t/revelation that she’s a new creature in God/adopted into a family of saints/chains began to break from around her ankles and arms as she lifted herself from the floor/the word of the Lord went forth/she was remade/renewed/reclaimed/she is a child of God/with authority in her voice and faith in her spirit/she prayed/she stood/she fasted/she was delivered/her fifty two year old father heard her voice on the radio/preaching the good news/healed/he set out to visit/asking her forgiveness/she turned to him/and said it is done/he/addicted no longer/pipes in the trash/no more coke stashed/said he was free/saved from the world/and it’s attack on me/rejoicing/she walked with her father in newness and in love/