A barely audible creak greeted me
As I entered this still unfamiliar place.
His figure approached, step by step, slowly,
Aged and wizened, his steps marked with grace.
But for his slouch, he could be any man,
Now so much smaller than my childhood fear.
Not the monstrous terror of long ago,
A different presence, yet so close, so near.
There I stood, a deer caught in the light,
Shaking off the shadows of my fright,
In the haze of ill-served remembrance,
Realizing that I loved him all along,
A bond transformed by time’s gentle embrace,
From phantom fears to love's enduring song.
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crypticbard (Pseudonym) (
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Comments1
Works for me as son - father relationship over time, and as such has a tone of veracity about it.
Thanks DD. Some of our relationships in life are the strangest ones we will ever have. 🙏🏻
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