2. Leaving
“I… I love you, too.”
The rasping, whispering of his voice hurts me. My chest tightens painfully; physical ache for emotional torrent. Don’t leave, don’t go; Gran passed nine days ago, I can’t lose you too… One last grip of his hand (When did he lose that impossibly strong handshake?), one last look into his clouded eyes, and my mother takes me around the shoulders, leading me out of the Houses, under the star-studded evening sky.
The last visit. The last time embrace. The last (weakened) handshake, showing his love for me.
It was not enough. Nothing ever will be.
The rasping, whispering of his voice hurts me. My chest tightens painfully; physical ache for emotional torrent. Don’t leave, don’t go; Gran passed nine days ago, I can’t lose you too… One last grip of his hand (When did he lose that impossibly strong handshake?), one last look into his clouded eyes, and my mother takes me around the shoulders, leading me out of the Houses, under the star-studded evening sky.
The last visit. The last time embrace. The last (weakened) handshake, showing his love for me.
It was not enough. Nothing ever will be.
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