<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=479855" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Father's Eulogy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ladies and Gentlemen, <br>You are all gathered here today <br>To pay your respects to someone you knew.<br>However, <br>I come today not to bury my father <br>But set him free.<br>You see<br>The man who was my father died <br>Along with his dreams<br>Many years back.<br>He was slowly crushed by disappointments<br>Until he no longer wished to fight <br>This shell was not the father of my childhood<br>Who stood straight as the redwoods<br>He is not the man who knew how to laugh and play.<br>My father bartered his pride for too small a price<br>And became a pauper.<br>His self esteem slipped away long before his last breath.<br>He had been trying to suffocate himself<br>Under his own weight.<br>I knew him when he still had a twinkle in his eyes.<br>So, <br>Do not cry for this body before you <br>Because you never met the actual soul<br>That so long ago was housed in his body.<br>He deformed himself to the extent <br>That even he no longer recognized himself in his reflection. <br>Perhaps it was easier not remembering <br>Who he use to be.<br>I inherited my sense of humor, my love of music, <br>My quickness and speed from my father, <br>Even my biting sarcasm.<br>My spirit seems to be my mother's.<br>For those of you who knew him in his youth<br>You knew him better than me<br>For those of you who knew him with a young family<br>You knew him as well as me.<br>For those of you who met him once he was broken<br>You may have seen a glimmer of who he use to be, <br>And, that, on a good day.<br>I will say again, <br>Thank you for your presence <br>I will ask you kindly, <br>Not to weep.<br>My father left this life long ago<br>Because in his dreams <br>He could hide from the world and find his peace.<br>Let him sleep a last long slumber<br>And, <br>I wish him beautiful dreams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rabia+Minhas">Rabia Minhas</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=479855" data-title="My Father's Eulogy de Rabia Minhas" data-description="Ladies and Gentlemen, You are all gathered here today To pay your respects to someone you knew. However, I come today not to bury my father But set him free. You see The man who was my father died Along with his dreams Many years back. He was..."></div> </div> </div>

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