It had months since the divorce was final and Clark was worried about his father. Jonathan had been going on like nothing had happened. Just went back to continue doing his work on the farm. Clark expected his father to be a lot more upset when the divorce was final, but instead all that Jonathan said to him was that it's over and he just had to move on.
Clark knew that Jonathan was bottling up his feelings. He was glad his father had the attitude that he had to move on but still, he hadn't seen his father be really upset. And he was worried that by bottling up his emotions, at some point Jonathan would just breakdown. Clark himself even cried a few times when his parents' divorce was final.
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Jonathan knew deep down he was broken since the divorce. His choice not to show how upset he was came from the fact that he didn't want other people in the town to feel sorry for him. The wedding of Martha and Lionel was all over the news and Jonathan knew he wouldn't be able to escape people feeling for him. But that's just what he didn't want. He didn't want them to feel bad for him. So he decided he would just play it off and not act as upset as he really was.
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And it continued like this, Jonathan would just go out and work on the farm and hardly talk to anyone. In fact the only person he would talk to was Clark.
"There's pictures of you and I on the walls around me The way that it was and could have been surrounds me "
Then one day, hiding his feelings just got to be too much for him. He found in his closet a box of pictures he had put away of him and Martha. He found one particular picture they took of the two of them with Clark. It had been taken the week they had found him. Jonathan took the picture and sat on his bed looking at it. "We were such a happy family" he thought.
"To hell with my pride, let it fall like rain From my eyes Tonight I wanna cry"
Clark was on his way to bed when he saw the door to his father's room opened. He looked in and saw his father sitting on the bed looking at the picture. But then he noticed his father doing something that he hadn't done in a long time. His father was crying. Clark's first thought was that he should go in there and make sure his father was alright. But then he realized that his father had been keeping this in all this time and that a good cry alone was just what he needed.
The End.