Father, where are you?
Where did you go?
One day you left us.
We saw you no more.
You went into the earth,
Into the mine.
I went to class.
The sirens went off.
Katniss came to get me.
We went to the mine.
We went to see you.
There had been an explosion.
We didn't know
If you were alive.
We waited for hours,
We waited for you,
But you never came.
We waited in vain,
For you never came.
You died in that explosion.
You died in that mine.
You died underground.
You died that day.
You left us, Father.
You left us that day.
You'll never come back.
I am only seven.
How can I live
Without a father?
Without a mother?
For Mother, too, is gone.
Perhaps she will return,
But you are truly gone.
Where did you go, Father?
Why did you leave us?
Perhaps where you are
Is better that here.
Perhaps you, there
Are happier than where you were here.
I do not know,
I know only that you are gone.
One day I will join you.
I do not know when that will be.
But I hope it will be soon,
For I miss you, Father.