Mom, Why Did You Take My Dad Away from Me?

Mom, Why Did You Take My Dad Away from Me?
Ariel Abarbanel
(A gift to all “single mothers”)
Mommy, mommy, dear Mama!
Why did you take me away from Dad?
Why did you rob me of my father?
Why did you twist and ruin my life forever?
You gave birth to me “for yourself,”
So I’d be your little toy, always by your side,
To comfort you, to entertain you,
And to share every single one of your thoughts.
And Dad is far away — “just a sperm donor,”
He pays child support but isn’t happy about it,
Pays and never gets to see his child —
I tell you, that’s a miserable fate for a father.
And so a man grows up with “female patterns,”
Raised in this feminine swamp,
The same hysterics, the same accusations,
A “woman’s firmware” — how pathetic it is!
With this kind of upbringing, you can’t build a family!
With this kind of upbringing, you can’t go to war!
When there was no example of a father in childhood,
What can you expect from girls and boys?
We produce underage whores and young criminals
From this “female circle,”
All kinds of perverts and mental freaks,
And society no longer has any power over them!
Dear Mom, I don’t judge you,
Dear Mom, I don’t blame you,
You gave birth to me, you fed me — thank you for that,
But Dad is worth more than anything else in the whole world.
Dear mothers, don’t be thieves,
Don’t steal a father from Petka and Vovka,
Don’t sleep with Kolya and Vaska without marriage,
Don’t commit these outrages, don’t commit these outrages!
You conceived together — now raise the child together,
Be kind and decent,
Raise the child, guide him toward truth,
Together, in a family — only this brings joy.
Mommy, Mama, my childhood is gone,
I only wanted to live with Dad,
Memories of my childhood bring me no warmth,
Dad has long since rotted away in his grave.
03.05.2026 The Hague, Abarbanel