The piece,"dad, do you know I'm here?" by Emily Xu is a thoughtful poem about how her father is indirectly harming her. Her father is also hurting his eyes from using his ipad and his lungs by smoking. The author is breathing in the secondhand smoke like oxygen. She thinks that her father has forgotten that she is nearby.

   I can relate to this experience. The poem states,"abusing his lungs with clouds of black until secondhand smoke has become my oxygen." My grandpa smokes often too. When he lights the cigarette and puffs out smoke, I begin to breathe the contaminated oxygen. He is like the author's father, forgetting that he is hurting others around him.