Submission 236

Dear Dad,

We’re all really proud of you. We really are, please don’t be sad when you overlook us from above. We know that you are looking down at us, smiling proudly…We all can see the smile, we know that you are not gone…

Just one word, you could have spoken to us before going away forever…
Just one more day, you could have stayed with us longer…

I failed…The world continued to move when my own world stopped…Your heartbeat stopped, while mines kept on beating…With each breath, each step, heartbeat increasing, the world seemed to fade as if life was draining the life out of me…It was difficult to understand the reality…

The day the hospitals became dark and silent, the day the cars were zooming past us, the day when school became an escape for home and home became an escape for school, the day when my friends were at our door to support us…

You took a part of us with you, we felt broken, but we knew that you hadn’t forgotten us…

I came back home from the course with cadets… The next day, you were lying in the hospital with the sound of machines…

You are forever remembered and you matter.