[Mid-term] Rahmat Alwi - I Couldn’t Fulfill Your Wishes (Short Story)

I couldn’t fulfill your wishes

When i was a child, i like to smile at my father. I wonder he will stare at me, but he didn’t.

I love saying “i love you” to my father, waiting him to say something. I wonder if my father heard me, but he didn’t.

I asked him to play football at the bakyard; I wonder if my father would follow me out.

I draw and hoped my father would see it, but he didn’t.

I grow up to be a cheery kid.

I made a camping place at the backyard. I wonder if my father would join just for one night, but he didn’t.

I’m looking for worms for fish-bait. I wonder if my father would go with me, but he didn’t.

I was 15.

I asked my father to sharing. I wonder if my father would share too, but he didn’t.

I gave him a championship schedule that i played, wondering if my father would come. I thought my father would come, but he didn’t.

I want to share my childhood with my father. I wonder if my father wants it too, but he didn’t.

Then, when i was 20, state assignment called me; i must go to the battlefield. My father asked me to come home safely.

But...

I couldn’t fulfill his wishes.