Ignorance and Understanding

Physics fails and the earth falls away,
The sky opens and receives me today.

Each step I have taken whether a big one or small
Affects us today and taints one and all.

I know what I’m doing I say again and again
My father walks away and leaves me pretend.

Now I am here a man fully grown
I work on the shuttle, and I let it be known

He said I was foolish and did not logically think
I thought he was an asshole and drove him to drink.

I know what I’m doing I’ve proven before
I wish they’d lay off: take a step back! I implore.

So now here I am, steps from my home many away
I made my decisions and with not just my life I play

Every day has been a crap shoot and I’ve been lucky till now
I'd move in as certain not knowing how it’d come out.

With each move they adore me say I had skills
It’s a shame now I've fallen and it’s not just me who’s killed.

But if I'd survived this, they hang me for sure.
He wasn’t really qualified. They sneer and deplore.

My ass in a wringer Family name in disgrace.
My father was right from the grave he berates.

My fingers boil in front of me from flesh down to bone
It’s the last thing my eyes see as their fate too is known

This was a lesson taught at the last moment of life
A moment of clarity amid fire and strife

Life's most private experience comes in our final breath
I finally understood my father in my moment of death.