My Father

Ryan Beck My Father’s Journey into the Darkness
6/9/13
P1
English
Sestina
After I was born my Father
Cried sorrowful tears
For he feared his loved ones would be sad.
For he would be taken
And he would be gone
And so began my father’s journey into the darkness alone.

He tried to think of us alone
It only pained my father
It made us both cry tears
But one day he told me not to be sad
“For he had to be taken, and that it was okay for him to be gone.”

But I started to think” When he is gone
I will be alone.”
I mean I love my father
But he yelled at me sometimes till I was in tears
And it made me sad
But I still would have never have him taken.

But once he finally was taken
A person told me “What is gone is gone.”
I felt more and more alone
I could not bear to look at my father
It would cause me to go into tears
I was sad.

The ceremony was sad
The place we were taken
, Angel Island, was the place I watched him until he was gone
I went under deck to be alone
When I would think of my father
I would cry which would send others to tears.

Years later I still shed tears
But I should not be sad
There had to be a reason he was taken
There must be a reason why he is gone
All I know is that I’m not alone
And that I will always have my father.

The lesson I learned from this is that
”Time doesn’t heal all wounds,
It just helps us