closely distanced
2015
2015
My father is familiar. We eat, sing karaoke and watch television together. I hug him and he asks if I have eaten. He catches the bugs that I was (and still am) scared of. He spent a week sleeping next to me in the hospital. He works hard to put me in comfort.
My father is a stranger, a simple man of few words and fewer interests. I have known him for a lifetime, yet I do not quite know him. We live together, yet with lives apart. We are similar, yet so different.
We can never reconcile our distance, yet we love each other closely.
My father is a stranger, a simple man of few words and fewer interests. I have known him for a lifetime, yet I do not quite know him. We live together, yet with lives apart. We are similar, yet so different.
We can never reconcile our distance, yet we love each other closely.
