March 4, 2014

Seeing My Daughter For The First Time...

From Counterfeit Freedom by Roland F. Stoecker Jr (author's profile)

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I rember seeing my daughter Harmony for the first time while I was in Fresno County Jail. She was this long, cute ball of pink, I cried. I knew even then with the last of the drugs oozing out of me that she deserved more than her father staring at her from behind a plexi glass window. 7/20/12

After 9 long years my soon to be ex-wife visited me with our two beautiful daughters. I was also introduced to her five year old son. He was a flesh and blood reminder that she betrayed our marriage. So my blood was thumping and pumping. May daughter Noel asked me why was I shaking so much? I told her that I was nervous to meet her brother. I told her that I was just as nervous the first time I got to see her and her sister Harmony after 9 long years. I lied, how could I explain to her the horror I felt meeting my wife's son. This innocent child represented ever nightmare I ever had of my wife loving another man. While my wife lived a happy life, I had no idea where my daughters were or what kind of life they wer living. 6/10/12

-Mildewed tears-

White knuckled desperation to rember
her fading scent,
or the sight of her crucific hanging between her breasts.
and the way her hair reminded me of camping fires
now she love's someone else
I still talk to her
as if she's right next to me.
Roland 2/20/08

Roland Friedrich Stoecker Jr P-56837
CC1 D-8-49 [?]
PO Box 608
Tehachopi C9 93581

My ex-wife abandoned our two beautiful daughter's with a woman she only knew for 8 months. Now this woman is filling guardianship papers and once again I am without my daughter's. My ex-wife took her two kids she has with her sex offender carny and now travels around the country doing county and state fairs. My chest has been hallowed out long ago now its been filled up with biting, scratching insects that cause me such discomfort. I turned my drug addicted back on my four children and through their anger and hatred have turned their back on me. I deserve it!
Roland 1/24/14

-Few poems-

"Life put me in time out"

I sit in my pain
admiring how far
All my other emotions
stand from me

Roland 1/19/2014

-"sweet and sour"-

I've found myself trying
to force spilt tears
back into my eyes
You'r not worth the pain
of feeling betrayed

Roland 1/19/2014

Roland Stoecker P-56837
CC1 D-8-49 Low
PO Box 408
Tehachapi CA 93581

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arcadiaego Posted 10 years, 9 months ago. ✓ Mailed 10 years, 9 months ago   Favorite
Hi Roland, thanks for writing.

I enjoyed your last two poems a lot - they have really striking imagery. I'm sorry you're feeling so abandoned currently. I hope that in the future your family realise that you are aware of what you have done wrong and make an attempt to reconcile with you.

Elizabeth

greenpea Posted 10 years, 8 months ago. ✓ Mailed 10 years, 8 months ago   Favorite
i remember playing with my brother an sister in california in a field we ran and we stayed outside alot. my sister derica and my brother fritz both had blond hair and blue eyes. i loved it when ever they came to see us it truly felt like home. i stuck out as the young brunette who didnt understand why they had to leave or why i couldnt live with them or they couldnt live with us i was torn from those who i loved to go live with my grandparents in another state i remember talking to my older brother once and how sad and hurt he sounded on the phone. not a day goes by that i dont think of those who are apart of me its been so long i cant remember there faces. if this is the fritz that was once my big brother please know that i love you if this is not my brother please know that you are loved and your children will always love there daddy that is something that no one can take away even if they get separated and are miles apart
ali

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Unknown Posted 5 years, 3 months ago. ✓ Mailed 5 years, 2 months ago   Favorite
So what about the fact that you “Betrayed” My Mother and left behind a SON and a DAUGHTER??? Why or how your mad about the fact that you got your Karma is beyond me. I’m glad she had two more kids with ANOTHER MAN! Because your weren’t a man to me and Courtney??? Get off your crybaby bs. You were never a man so, Alicia found herself another one!! You abandoned Misty, Courtney and I. You should have no say when it comes to you getting what you gave. I never grew up with a real father! I wish grandpa Rolland was around still, he passed when I was 6 I know you miss him and you couldn’t come to his funeral because I was there and you of course WEREN’T... I’m grateful he was there! But as selfish as it sounds I’m glad your locked up. I hate how you are playing the innocent role. So what about my Mom or My Sister?? You suck. So please stop crying over yourself because DRUGS were way MORE IMPORTANT TO YOU THEN YOUR FIRST FAMILY!!! Left us then started another Family and she turned around and did the same thing you had done to Misty, Court and I....

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