My Father's Eyes

by Anna Dart, Roosevelt Middle School


Have you ever seen a look of total peace? I have, in my father's eyes. My father is the kind of man who looks at the world in a unique kind of way. Like all the answers in the world are in the sunset and the trees. and if you believe in yourself and keep on trying someday you will find them. Or at least that's what I think I see in my fathers eyes sometimes. He will drive up to the mountains and then he will start on a a long hike, My father goes for miles before he decides to stop. He won't say a word butholds a finder to his lips and closes his eyes and listens to the sounds of the wilderness. But I think he really hears more than that. Then he opens his eyes and just looks around at the beauty of the earth and that's when I see it. A little spark that oculd only mean one thing- peace. I once asked my father what the most beautiful sound in the world was and he said that the sound of the wind in the trees suited that title. My father is a normal person and you can't see all this at first glance but if you look deeper you may find something more, a thing that each person holds in a different way. I call it peace.