Hero

By Maddy Price

The day he crashed,
the day he fell,
his whole heart broke,
and I understand why.

A hard think for him,
his family,
his daughters,
to understand,
to help him, to be strong for him,
it can all be tough.

But the man is strong and never cries,
except the time we came to the hospital,
where a small tear came out of his left eye.

I saw his leg, and could not hold it together,
and so I wept,
I cried a river,
for him,
who I thought could never run again,
could never play basketball in the backyard,
never chase us around the pool,
and never take us motocross riding up in the hills.

Never again, I thought, would he be the same.

I was wrong and he showed me how,
over the hard year he recovered quickly,
to walk again,
to drive,
to swim,
but almost to run,
almost there,
just a couple more years.

He taught me how to recover,
how to be brave,
how to, when you’re stuck at the bottom, to get all the way back to the top again.
How in life you fail, but you will and can achieve greatness,
If you just believe.

One morning you wake up okay, the next you're changed.
But the spirit of life is luck,
and on that day you crashed you were lucky,
we were lucky.

Life is all about what you want to make it,
forget about the past,
and to not think about the future too much,
just focus on the now.

To live your life to the fullest is a lesson this man has became very good at,
living like there’s no tomorrow.

These lessons, these stories have made a family stronger, these valuable words should be able to make a world stronger.