The Last Memory
We sat the in shadow of the big oak tree using the moon as the one and only source of light. I had lost track of time, but my instincts had informed me that it was about midnight, but what did time matter for? I was with you. Hours, months or years may have passed thus as long as you were with me, I could have subsided in your presence. As we embraced, the silence grew louder; we did not need words to express our feelings, they just somehow radiated.
At that moment you had brought such euphoria in me that it drifted me off to a world where only you and I strolled the warm fields of a flower garden hand-in-hand, but of course, that was not where we were. In reality we laid down under the stars that shone so very bright and continued to lose track of time. I rested on your chest for support then looked into your eyes that wandered off into the endless sky. Those blue eyes that would drown me in affection and care, which had never once faded. “ Why did you take me here?” I asked. You looked down at me observably and revealed an angelic smile. “ Because this is where I would want to spend my last days with the one I live for,” you said with such normality in those words. In that very second It all came back to me; the trip to the doctor’s office earlier today that had confirmed signs of a tumor building up in your lungs. The thought of living without you brought sorrow in me; days would drag on feeling boundless if you were gone. “I love you, you know that right?” you said as you wiped tears off my face. Your touch was so weak that it felt like as if you would crumble to pieces before my eyes. I attempted to hold back my sobs but to no avail. “ I love you too…” I said as tears started to run down my cheeks. I knew you were still with me, but the feelings of grief came early and I started to feel empty.
