Holding Too Tightly

They hold tightly to what isn't even there and wait for a future that cannot come. Grasping air because they see nothing else they run from what threatens to be. To soon must it become real. The air will slip away. Make-believe life will be swallowed by a very harsh and real situation, one permitting no more dreams. Then they will become old, though they are hardly more than children. They will be bitter. They will be angry. They will have been cheated. What for others might have been, for them never had a chance.

Dad - 1 year.