The Old Man and the Boy

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You're listening to The Little Pod of Inspiration, a collection of stories and poems about love, redemption and change. Inspiration is all around us. All we have to do is look.

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The old man and the boy spent a lifetime sharing tales, of days when the man was not so old and he'd ride on the backs of whales.

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The boy listened closely held in awe to the stories that he heard, and when he saw the glint in the old man's eyes the boy didn't doubt a word.

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On a sandy beach the two would walk, the man's dog by their side, throwing pebbles out to the sea racing against the tide.

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Like guardians the two would stand with their winter coats drawn tight, and in the summertime round an old campfire they'd share stories in the night.

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There was love in his eyes when the old man smiled and the love, it was returned, and the boy would pray there would never be a time when the fire no longer burned.

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For it's a friendship no one can understand and far stronger than you and I, it's a love between two generations and it's far too strong to die.

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For the stories passed between a grandfather and a grandson he so loves, builds a wall so strong you could only pass if you flew in the skies above.

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These carefree days would pass so slow each day held something new, days spent fishing in the downstream flow 'neath a summer sky so blue.

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The tales of the one that got away made the young boy's mother laugh, and when the old man argued handsomely she'd cry, "Away and don't be daft!"

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Yet life is just a short lived thing and all things must surely end, for death awaits us one and all around each turn and bend.

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The old man passed away in wintertime so gentle in his sleep, and though the boy cries painfully there are memories to keep.

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