Cold, rainy mornings..

Cold, rainy mornings... Rain ( Kagamizu , 2014).

. My father is Mr. Thilakasiri . He is 67 years old. He is a goldsmith by profession..

Even on holidays, he wakes up early in the morning and starts to work..

. He cycled 30 km to bring me medicines. I had taken the comforts he had given me for granted..

. I wish I knew of “love’s austere and lonely offices” (Hayden, 1985, line 14) when I was a small girl..

. Robert Hayden (Getty Images). A successful poet, essayist & educator Difficult childhood in “Paradise Valley,” a Black ghetto Biological parents were separated; f oster parents often fought ( Formann , 2006 ) “Those Winter Sundays” (1985) could have been inspired by his foster father, a hard-working labourer ( Formann , 2006) ..

. Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze . No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,.

. What about you? Were you always a grateful child? Had you also taken the sacrifices of your parents / parental figures before you read this poem? It’s time to tell me your stories .

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