Letter Sixteen

Hi dad

It's like no matter what I say, I always come back writing letters to you. Even when you haven't replied to any single one of them, it feels like it will hurt a little less with every passing year, but every time I see someone's dad coming to the parent-teacher meeting, I lose it. I lose it all. This hole that you left in our hearts starts to feel like a void again. All the temporary things we filled it with scatters away, and this emptiness starts weighing again.