Dear Dad,

Have I finally broken through?

Have you finally felt the frustration?

Have you finally seen the darker side of this terrible translation?

Do your insides ache for understanding?

Does your brain ring with sounds of defeat?

Do you finally realize that you have lost the raging battle, will you finally retreat?

How can you stand so adamant about things that only you believe?

How can you be so ignorant towards the things that make others feel free?

I am different from you, you cannot change that fact.

I am my own person, my own mind, my own sense of worth.

I am my own set of goals, my own ideals, my own path.

I am what I want for myself, and not you or anyone else can change that.

So why do we fight such immovable a barrier?

For how long with this assault persist?

Will we tire ourselves to exhaustion's brink?

Will the promise of peace escape our lips?

Can we ever bridge that unfathomable gap

Or will this infinite ocean endlessly lap

against the shores of our own different dreams?