Request by Kagamine Miharu

(The Art of Thinking)

He is the very definition

Of 'loving from a distance'

His job is to rock and tip the world

Into a new age

Where life is better

And shady old men

Don't run the world

(Sometimes, though, he wishes it wasn't)

.

They never really knew each other

(He wouldn't be surprised

If the boy didn't even know his father is alive)

And as much as he hates the government

He doesn't think of any option

Other than leaving his boy

In the care of the 'hero of the marines'

(The fact that the man's his father

Doesn't even come into play

Not when it's the safety of his own child

On the line)

.

Sometimes he finds himself thinking

Not of revolutions

Or supplies

Or governments and what he can do

To topple them

But of a little boy

(Who probably looks more like his mother)

In the calmest sea

Yelling and laughing and having fun in life

(Sometimes, he finds himself wishing

He was there to see it)

.

Someday, the world will find out

And it will shake it to the core

In a way he never intended

The fact that this could help the cause

Doesn't even occur to him

(Not when it's the life of his child on the line)

.

And he'll wait until the day comes

That he can sit the boy down

(His own flesh and blood)

And explain who he is

And why he was never around

He's thought about how it would turn out

Every possible outcome

He's foreseen tears

And yelling

And accusations

(The boy has every right

To be angry at the father who wasn't there)

.

He's thought over all the ways

They could reunite

But it isn't until he sees a picture

With a world sized grin

A little scar

A straw hat

And spiky black hair

That he thinks

Perhaps he and this boy

Won't meet in the midst of tears

Yelling

Or accusations

He feels like this boy

Would ask him for the story of his life

Not because he wants justification

But because he wants to hear the story

Of what lead them to that place

And that time

.

Neither of them are heroes

But this picture tells him the boy

Is free and happy

And even if he wishes he was a part

Of the life that lead his boy

To where he is now

Freedom

Is all he's ever wanted

For his son

(And he has his mother's smile)