Seconds ticked by

The seconds ticked by....clicked onHe clicked on,His eyes smarted in pain.
The gentle blue light,threw a celestial lookto his aging face.
The lines and contours of worry remarkablyran across his broad forehead.
Hands flew across the console,I could read his mind.
For it's the mind i have understoodall these years.
His hands was almost cold, and numb with the continuos tapping of keys ,and the artificial cooler only numbed his fingers,providing no soothing coolness of the open night air.
How i remembered the same hands that hadlifted me upto the skies, and had now taught me to reach the skies.
The huge hands gently clasping my tiny fingers,and cautiously manuevering me through the odds and ends, of the world.Seeing him work was an ordeal of pain,A sudden fear ran through me,an icy hand seemedto clasp my heart, shedding all its warmth away, When i thought.."Is this all for me?"
He held his chin with this hand,thinking...Brooding over the dumb machine,he seemed to be imparting a part of himself into it,He wanted this machine to understand him,
unaware of my stare, he continued...Unberable.!... so much work to the mind to comfort the heart?
He had to live up to all our expectations;Will i live up to his...?My hands grew number still; strangely todayI felt as though my hands were heavier ,and my heart heavier still with a greater burden.I noticed his shoulders seemed to be drooping...he clicked on...seconds ticked by...we seemed to entrapped in a trance with each of us in our own worlds.Time seemed to be at a standstillI could even hear the still night today.
He continued unperturbed...I couldn't bear it now,putting up a brave front i walked,As i came nearer, I could sense the intensity of his concentration, it crushed my very soul. Slowly I placed my hands on his palms and looking up into what seemed my very own eyes I said... "Dad... Take some rest."
Smiling he turned the consle off,The screen blinked it was ready to shutdown,He quietly retired to bed...It had only been shut down...Not broken down.