An Ode to My Dead Dad

All the things I’d tell him if he were still here.

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Dad, I wish I could get the last image of you out of my head. It was a sacred and devastating thing, to see you right after you’d died. But it was almost as heartbreaking as watching you for weeks in a coma, fighting to stay alive.

I walked into your hospital room that final day thinking I could handle it. My brother…