1
2
3
✛
papa
my father
his hair is slowly graying at the roots; his (already small) eyes seem to have shrunk amid the pockets of eye bags.
recently he developed a bout of gout and his left toe was swollen while i (lacking wisdom) went for a run, stepped on a branch and sprained my left ankle. so there we were father and daughter, hobbling on our right legs, and it was quite a funny sight to behold.
he is now hunched over the family desktop, wearing a pair of headphones that makes him look like mickey mouse. i wonder what can keep him enthralled for hours (obviously the internet) and when i walk by i see the screen playing snippets from episodes of 'Every Singaporean Son'.Boys Men in green are interviewed, their daily activities are captured and my father clamours after every morsel of information he can get.
i know he's trying. he's trying to connect with his Singaporean son. he wants to be able to speak the army lingo which has undergone much transformation since his time in the army. i just hope my brother understands.
his hair is slowly graying at the roots; his (already small) eyes seem to have shrunk amid the pockets of eye bags.
recently he developed a bout of gout and his left toe was swollen while i (lacking wisdom) went for a run, stepped on a branch and sprained my left ankle. so there we were father and daughter, hobbling on our right legs, and it was quite a funny sight to behold.
he is now hunched over the family desktop, wearing a pair of headphones that makes him look like mickey mouse. i wonder what can keep him enthralled for hours (obviously the internet) and when i walk by i see the screen playing snippets from episodes of 'Every Singaporean Son'.
i know he's trying. he's trying to connect with his Singaporean son. he wants to be able to speak the army lingo which has undergone much transformation since his time in the army. i just hope my brother understands.
“some people feel like they don't deserve love. they walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
This is a free page. Put here your tagboard, your links, or anything. You can delete the credits below, but please, leave a link somewhere to the original skin where I've already listed the credits. Thank you!