One Blue Shoe

Realcooldude · 2018-06-12 02:15:03

I found you standing near a pot of stew, discarded like a broken dish. No mother in site and not even a name.
I could tell that you were all alone and i asked where your mother went. You responded "to feed sis" one letter at a time. At that time i fed you from my small berry farm. When your mother did not return i adopted you as my own.

I never told you but i was also left in a field to die. I made my way to town where the Children of the berries raised me. I was forced to scavange th remains of the Haves as i was a Have not. That is why i had one blu shoe and one rabbit foot.

As soon as you were old enough you assisted me in maintaining the crop and the sheep. For a long time we worked to sustain the town that didnt want us or know that we existed. Providing them with mutton.

At one time the Have children picked all the carrots and we had no seed. Seeing it as our duty we both took off our separate directions to find seeds. I west and you south.

Durring that journey i prayed to the berry gods that you would make it back safely. As tile after tile throught the swamp and desert laid the remains of the Have children. So many bones with cloths rotting into the ground. I thought about not being able to make it back and that i would never see you again. That is when i found the one lone carrot in the desert. I picked the seed made a sharp stone ate the carrot and started my trip back East. Dodging snakes and wolves trying to get back to you to see if you had returned.

When i made it back i planted the seed ate and looked around, you had not returned yet and i feared the worst.

Distraught i returned to my duties of berry farming. There was much neglect in our absence! I returned the farm to it former glory. All the wile old age setting in.

Just then you apeared in the middle of the field. As i was aging fast i gave you the remains of my clothing and that one blue shoe. I told you to wear that blue shoe and to adopt another and teach them the ways of the farm.

Your brother watching our exchange knew of your life. Being a Have child he passed you my mothers backpack and knife to carry on the mutton. With three bars remaining i said my last words, although you said goodbye i did not speak as a testament to you. So that those words would live on. Although our trees will never link "You were the best son a father could ever have!"

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Xan · 2018-06-12 02:36:30

Thanks dad. You really live up to your name as Realcooldude.

In this life I had a hard time balancing the roles of productive member of society and loving parent. You did a great job with me, but I couldn't find time to have an apprentice of my own. We still desperately needed soil and the sheep needed tending. I passed on your one blue shoe to a child, and I passed on my brother's blade to a young boy who I witnessed giving his shirt to a younger girl.

You were the best dad a son could ask for.

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