The Son's Tale

I really don’t know how we got till here
All I Know is that I feel a great fear
Of the bad guys and the ones that are sad
They scream “help” and we can’t help, I feel bad
I also fear that my Papa and I 5
Will stop going south and suddenly die.
He says we won’t, but I think that he lies.
I’ve seen a dog and some little mice,
And a little boy, just like I, poor boy
So scared he was, so far away from joy. 10
But I had to leave him there, all alone.
Papa said “there’s nothin’ we could’ve done”
Papa is so wise and he is so good,
Even when he is not in the right mood.
I try to be a good son, I prefer 15
That I don’t make him suffer more than her
She was mean to go away, suddenly.
I remember her existence only
But he remembers her entirely
In his thoughts and mind he should not ever rely 20
I have heard him weep over her at night
He always says what she did was not right.
Sometimes I hope that to us she comes back
Oh! Another person we would not lack.
We are only the two of us, that’s it. 25
And any interaction we omit
There is no one left to trust Papa says,
As long as I have him, it is okay.

The road seems to never end, keeps going.
I keep on walking behind, unknowing. 30
Where we are heading, but I trust his will
All this misery is with his goodwill
I do know that we are not the bad guys,
I also know that there are no allies.
Because everybody else aren’t nice. 35
There’s nobody left, to be precise.
We are carrying a gun all the time
Papa has shot it, and is not a crime
He won’t ever let anybody touch me
That’s why to be vigilant is the key. 40
We are going to die soon, I know that
We cannot stay for so long in combat.
I am so so skinny and so hungry
And not finding food makes him so angry.
In abandoned houses there is food 45
Sometimes bad sometimes good.
I got sick once with fever and cold
Very tight Papa had me withhold
He got so worried he thought I would die
I think a tear he dropped from his eye. 50
And later I got better thanks to God
Are you okay? Papa said, I would nod.

And so on goes my tale, day and night.
Waking everyday looking for a bite
It has not ended yet I hope it does 55
This happy life is not the way it goes.
I dream of a world of joy and delight
And not of this world of eternal night.