The Road

Nameless man with a nameless boy in a nameless land.
On a journey of survival to an unknown destination.
No place to call home, just each other to keep warm.
Days filled with ash and darkness, no hope to cling to
but only the value of the life of the nameless mans son
to keep pushing, keep fighting.
His love runs so deep for the nameless son,
he would do anything to keep him alive.
His life is the only reason that he keeps living.
There is no tell what the road may lead them to.
They blindingly follow the dark burnt dirty road with no implication whether
there is a place they can finally be safe and call home.
Nameless. hopeless. The only thing that are certain of is danger and death.
Their stomaches are full with nothing but fear.
So nameless. hopeless. They continue into the darkness down the road together to the unknown.

I was never and still is not really good at doing poems and such that's why it has taken me so long to do one. For some reason I this book has inspired me to right a poem. I kind of just reviewed what we have read and tried to put it in a poem. When I think of this story I cannot help but wonder how they survived this long. Not just physically but mentally. They live in fear every single day, not knowing what they will eat every single day. This is such a draining processes not just physically but it has to take a tremendous toll on them within them. I do not know if I would be able to live with such stress in my life and living in a world with no hope and always worrying about dying everyday. It seems like they are so close to death and it seems as though every time they are at the end of its course they always seem to find a way to survive. They live in a dark world, where most people have died or people killing each other and coming in contact with cannibals. As a child I would be scared out of my mind and it seems as though the boy is able to keep it together and on top of that care for others that they come in contact with, he wants to help them too. It just amazes me that his heart is not hardened and is still wanting to care for those who are in need. They live in a dog eat dog world and he still seems to have a pure heart, still so innocent when he has been exposed to things that most kids never come into contact with. Also the father, he is incredibly strong for his son. The only reason he lives is to take care of his son. He hasn't let death and darkness around him overcome him, its as if it is his son that keeps him sane and still alive. It must be heart wrenching to see your own son starve and freeze in the cold all the time, when you know that this is not the norm. But to his son this is the norm, this is all that he knows. His father is able to keep his son safe and he manages to always find a way to feed him and put him first whenever he has the chance. It seems in a world of darkness, the only light to be found is the love that the father has for his son.