friendly fire

there's this someone
who's been talking about
sad and unhappy human beings
probably thinking he's doing his friend a favor.

he obviously is not aware
that it actually is his friend
who has a tragic story
->  irreversible because the friend's father
has unexpectedly passed away.

the septuagenarian father
spent the last year of his life
looking for a house to rent
because his daughter was forcing him
out of his own house.

the way the daughter tells it:
the father hates this establishment across.
the father wants the house to go to her.
both true, yes.
related, no.

there is something the daughter has been leaving out of the narrative:
that the father did not want to leave his house
and it was she who was insistent that he does.

that is material information.

the father had intended for the daughter
to take the house after he passes away.
the daughter, on the other hand,
wanted to take over right away.

unless the daughter is totally heartless,
those tears she's been shedding
are not just tears of grief for the loss
but also tears of guilt for the greed.

sad.