Who Killed My Father

“The history of your body is the history of politics.”

Every physical scar on his father's body tells a political story. He realizes that laws made in far away offices actually break human spines.

“You didn't want to be seen as a father who loved his son.”

The father used to hide his love behind a mask of toughness. Seeing him years later, he is just a broken man who finally has the words to be kind.

Shame is a silent killer in their house. His father felt humiliated by his own poverty and took it out on the people closest to him.

“You were dancing while your life was being stolen from you.”

He looks back at a childhood memory of his father dancing to a pop song. It felt like a betrayal of masculinity back then, but now it feels like a lost dream.