When a daughter marries <br />a distant place <br />his father will be sad <br />knowing that <br />distance can always stab <br />him anytime <br /> <br />as years go by the bleeding <br />continues <br /> <br />the daughter can forget all <br />these with a child to bear <br />and years can add some padded <br />memories that make the distance <br />more bitter <br /> <br />the father goes to the kitchen <br />for comfort as he slices with his <br />sharp knife some onions <br /> <br />tears fall down and in those years <br />that he is alone <br />the floors where he stands are <br />rusting with all the crystals of <br />salt <br /> <br />the news is heard that the father <br />one day goes out of the house and <br />runs naked in his farm of cabbages <br />there, he uproots what he plants <br />there, he curses the rice paddies <br />and pours his misgiving to the <br />scarecrows <br /> <br />one day the daughter comes back <br />bringing her three daughters home <br />what surprises her are the changes <br />which she cannot believe: the <br />stair has only one tooth left <br />the floors of the living room melt <br />the roof is nested with black crows <br />the bed has a boa for a sleeper <br />and in the kitchen there she finds <br />her father who is still slicing <br />all the rotten tomatoes constantly <br />for all the years <br /> <br />the daughter embraces his father <br />and shows her three daughters but <br />then the father has turned into <br />a sculpture of stone.<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-story-about-a-daughter-who-married-distance/
