Don’t have many pics with me
None in my phone, only a few faded keepsakes around the house
The many memories I keep inside me, along how he and my mom raised me – to be real
My earliest memories?
Hard to tell
Him studying German, listening to end endless cassette tape in our old player. Wie heist du? Das Mädchen.. Many words burnt into me forever
The first time he and I went to visiti my baby Sister. Him holding her, craying with long black hair. A 6 year old boy watching with unexplainable excitement.
The many image of him in fishing gear, recounting stories of giant ones getting away.. and the occasional one that he would slay
Making sausages, his famous sausages..
The time I told him he looks like a famous poet, and how he laughed, just because he wore a knit scarf
The sadness in his eyes when grandma left us, A moment to see what really vibed behind his usually stern guise
The emptiness in his eyes, as he looked at me, distant, far, towards the end of his life
Sitting here by the sea. He took me to one when i was just three, a teardrop to salute that cute memory
The many nicknames he gave me, not uttered ever since we said good bye. Only I remember those, as a gift he left for me.
I will end here, incomplete.
Doesn’t matter how many lines, how many sweet or painful memories.. He is long gone. 11 years soon, hard to believe
I miss his calm and the touch of his warm, caring palm..




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