Father - Son Talk

[seymoure]

Son – Father, I know you did not accept my choice. You had the path all chosen, and I did not follow it.

Father – It was what we had agreed upon before you went.

Son – But when I got there I thought, “Is this the best way to know the truth?” And I doubted it was.

Father – I know, I know. But, why did you not bring up any of this before you went?

Son – Perhaps it was the truth of the atmosphere. When I breathed the air, the world was a different place.

Father – You have been there before. But you thought you needed another time among them, and, though it changed everything, I granted it.

Son – And for that I will always be grateful. But too really sample, I needed to be one of them, fully.

Father – Why?

Son – Before I see through their eyes, I had to have those eyes. I needed to be myself, not an extension of you?

Father – But are not all an extension of me? That has always been the plan.

Son – But last time I had to be known as your son. I, therefore, lived a life apart.

Father – So you wanted to cut the special bond between us? Become just like them? And that is what you got.

Son – Did you have to make it so hard? I was a failure most of my life! I had ideas that were decades before their time. I was bested in business by those who were less worthy, whose only talent was politics.

It was only in love, love of my wife and children that I was successful. Even there I often felt I failed them.

My health was always a problem, I encountered pain without end.

My gifts were often rejected or ridiculed, my talents went unnoticed. The things I wanted to contribute were given less than nothing in value.

I cried more tears than it would ever be thought possible.

Father – So now, my son, you really know them.

Son – That I do, Father. Next time I have more understanding than I could have ever hoped to have had.

Father – And then you may be called Messiah.

                                                  NOT THE END

                                                © C. Wayne Owens