Written by TellMeStorys507, "DAD" is a letter of thanks and love to a father figure who wasn't there at the speaker's birth and didn't help create her. The first half lists what he did anyway: he loved her, spoiled her, called her his own, taught her right from wrong, told her stories, and held her when she cried and ran from home. Even after he and her mom divorced, he kept treating her as his little girl.
Then the poem turns. He says he owes her his life, and she answers that he owes her nothing. As a toddler she simply saw a man in need and helped, and the poem suggests she made him eat and drink when no one else would. Her love stayed steady through his bad times, his recovery, his leaving, and his return.
The mood is warm, loyal, and tender. The plain, unpolished wording makes it feel sincere, like something said straight from the heart. The last lines sum it up: he accepted her, and she accepted him.