Friends and family gathered around me on that cold rainy February night, waiting for the news.
“No brain activity,” the doctor said.
Walking in the house at midnight, I called out your name, by habit.
In the dark silence, your last words echoed through my mind: “I can hear you.”
Susan is a Curriculum Developer at a mortgage company. She is widowed with two grown daughters and two stepsons, and four awesome grandchildren, two boys and two girls.
Chills
Poignant and brilliant. In a short time the person in the story goes from major support to incredible loneliness.
‘Walking in the house at midnight, I called out your name, by habit.’ …shouldn’t that be, ‘Walking in the house at midnight, I called out your name, FROM habit.’? What do I know?
Very powerful, i want more.