"He would say be still my boy, never son" that line immediately made me depressed and sad. I felt that it was so harsh that this child wasn't called son because of a choice that wasn't his to make. I feel that it still hurts Shane Koyczan because he repeats the line "never son". In past poems he never really repeats lines, he incorporates the title into the poem, but he doesn't repeat lines that hurt so much. "Do you love me? Was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch" was so impacting, as if asking a simple question could make everything fall apart, which is strange because it sounds like there is nothing to fall apart. His voice sounds of struggle and yearning for what was never given, love from a father, and no matter how much he begged inside he would never receive it. I like that when the father figure finally spoke to him Shane Koyczan no longer hated him, and that he accepted his apology. He was moved by an apology and in all the silence between the two the father figure learned everything he needed to know about the son.
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