I have a few minutes to live,I’m sorry, Dad … he whispered into the horizon, no voice coming out but his words forming in the space around him.
I’m sorry, Dad …Dad … he called out. I was such an ungrateful child, too self-absorbed to hear what you had to say. Our last words shouldn’t have been a fight. I’m just so angry. I could have stopped your death. Dad, you’d be alive today if I’d had the heart to follow you to the forest. I could have stopped it, and I stood still. I stormed off. I kept cursing my fate in my room, thinking only about myself, not once stopping to think about the trouble you could be in.
Dad …I was such an ungrateful child, too self-absorbed to hear what you had to say. Our last words shouldn’t have been a fight. I’m just so angry. I could have stopped your death. Da
