Day: December 20, 2021

sad story

~ thereluctantpoet

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short story

A father punished his 5-year-old daughter for destroying gift wrapping papers
He became angry when he saw his daughter trying to decorate a box in her hands.
And in the morning, the girl brought that small box to her father, and she says, “This is your gift, Dad.” He stuttered, unable to speak. His reaction stopped, and with the insistence of the girl, he took the gift, and he became ashamed.
But he returned and became angry when he opened the box and discovered that the box was empty! Then he shouted, “Don’t you know that when you give someone a gift, there should be something in it?”
Then he just threw the box in the trash, the little girl said with tears in her eyes, Dad, it’s not empty. I put a lot of kisses inside the box, and they’re all for you, Dad. He broke the father’s heart…

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Hope is a lonely warrior

~ thereluctantpoet

Thinking Chitalia

It is but a season, though a season it is.

A pall of gloom now, where stood a blue sky.

Yet, amidst all the death around, there is a death,

to which my countrymen, you and i must never die.

Sorrow is a conjurer, turns too much to so little,

Hardens woe to numbness, then tears will run dry.

Yet, to the memory of these pyres burning,

my fellowmen, you and i must never die.

Only constant is change, a lighter air will come.

And we;

breathless no more, when this has passed by.

Yet, to these dying cries for just a mere lungful,

my dear hearts, you and i must never die.

Answers to questions, then questions to answers,

Where the fault lay, thinking heads will pitch a try.

Yet, to that unasked ask of looking within,

my soul-friends, you and i must never die.

He did it, not…

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