it is the worst
moment
in a boy’s life, when
he sees,
for the first time, what
his father really
is
it is the moment,
that the boy becomes
a man
he must now replace
his father
he must now fool his
own son for so many
years
making him think
that his father is
god,
just as he had
thought
it is not for revenge
it is not for laughs
it is because it is what must be
done
a boy raised under a mere
man
will never become
one
humans have evolved
to see god in everything,
to make everything
better than they are
so that we’ll be afraid.
so that we’ll always
have our guard up.
so that we’ll think that
our weakest foe is our
most powerful enemy
it was needed,
for survival,
like all the other quirks
of this species
but it has changed,
evolved,
since then
it emerges when the son sees
his dad, his papa, his opa,
go from a being so much bigger
than anything else in the world
to being so much smaller than
even the dwarf that the son used
to be
it may be the fall
of the patriarch
that is the cause of all
this
but it is the offspring.
that suffers the
greatest
pain
Jan 29, 2011
Jan 29, 2011 at 6:27 PM UTC
it is the worst
moment
in a boy’s life, when
he sees,
for the first time, what
his father really
is
it is the moment,
that the boy becomes
a man
he must now replace
his father
he must now fool his
own son for so many
years
making him think
that his father is
god,
just as he had
thought
it is not for revenge
it is not for laughs
it is because it is what must be
done
a boy raised under a mere
man
will never become
one
humans have evolved
to see god in everything,
to make everything
better than they are
so that we’ll be afraid.
so that we’ll always
have our guard up.
so that we’ll think that
our weakest foe is our
most powerful enemy
it was needed,
for survival,
like all the other quirks
of this species
but it has changed,
evolved,
since then
it emerges when the son sees
his dad, his papa, his opa,
go from a being so much bigger
than anything else in the world
to being so much smaller than
even the dwarf that the son used
to be
it may be the fall
of the patriarch
that is the cause of all
this
but it is the offspring.
that suffers the
greatest
pain
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