Papa

I'm sorry

I have seen the world with your eyes

I have seen your smile-concealed cries

I have barely fathomed

The ache on your shoulders

I have seen your dreams smoulder

Oh how hurtful

How damning it must be

To live within your soul

But with smiles so free

I was dumb, I was naive

To be uncaring, to be ignorant

All this time not seeing

Human you are, yet a superhuman soul

To shield us from villains of the world

Putting yourself in the line of fire

Taking a hit when times are dire

I'm sorry

I have glimpsed at your tears

That you meant to keep hidden from us

I have glimpsed at your fragility

And now I know how it hurt you

To see us hurt

Now I know the love

That eminates from you

Is far more greater than ours

And it surprises me

It fills me with awe, with envy

How can you love us so much

Through all the anguish?

I'm sorry

I know how you hate it when we cry

But I can't help it

You couldn't have hidden it from me

Any longer, I'm older

Now I see you

And so I hurt

And so I cry

And so I'm sorry.

I love you is an understatement

For what I feel for you papa.

By Jamima

From: India

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