I don't believe much about the afterlife, do you?
But it's real, I mean really.
How do I know
Well, I can tell you.
First it starts with the happy part of my life.
We got Married it was a beautiful June day.
Not a cloud in the purest blue sky.
We gave our vows
I had prepared mine.
I said
I was in college
I wasted my spare cash on a Motorcycle.
I needed wheels right?
Of course, I crashed it on a bend that I took way too fast.
She lifted up my head and looked into my eyes.
I thought I am dead she is an angel right.
But i was not dead and she was a woman
A beautiful woman but still earthbound
.
She said does it hurt are you in pain.?
I said agony, not pain
She kissed my lips
And she gave me a pack of fruit flavoured Lifesavers
Only the favourite food of my sweet tooth.
And here we are six years later with our son Ben.
Getting Married.
A thing she swore she would never do.
She said her piece
Thank you for not dying that day
For I am not sure I could have survived either
Because without you I don't exist.
The car crash was an accident that same night
The rain that had hidden in the air we breath became a weapon of destruction
As it released the imprisoned water it held in magic within its structure.
The flooded road the Dog walking across the country bypass
The sound of his head hitting the glass of the windshield.
The silence.
Eight years later
She had remarried
A second life
Far away from me
With my crutch of alcohol.
And distance.
She Blamed me of course.
Why did you not fasten his seatbelt?
He would have been fine.
I thought I did
But alcohol quieted the guilt
I drive myself crazy with guilt
But it doesn't help,
That's when the call came in.
I am a fancy high-end corporate lawyer now
Earning high six figures.
I had bought her out of the house
And couldn't sell it.
I was us when we were happy
When we were us.
The tenants had left it wrecked.
Where are all the good people?
I went over to the place
The inside was a mess broken glass
Windows smashed the place was a wreck.
But it had a fragrance of the happiness that once lived here.
I could taste it.
It was sweet.
Then I heard the noises upstairs in the attic
I pulled down the attic ladder and walked slowly around
Looking for the intruder.
Then I Saw him it was my dead son Ben.
He said hi Dad.
Wheres, Mom.
I could not believe my eyes and fell backwards
down the ladders and knocked myself out.
When I came around he was stood near me.
Dad where Mom
I said she's not here son.
Failing to mention her husband
and the two daughters he had from a previous marriage.
He said Bring her here Dad I miss her.
I called her
She did not answer me.
The man who killed her offspring I guessed.
So I drove over to her place and said you got to come to my house.
She came and saw Ben running through the house.
She thought it a sick trick.
And slugged me with the vicious right hook.
Calling me a sick *******.
After a week I told Ben I would get her to come
I went back to her place.
She said do you want seconds
I politely refused another punch.
She came anyway
And as she entered the door
Ben said Hi mom.
She wept in disbelief.
He said I pushed the seatbelt button.
It was me
We spent weeks with him.
I quit my job to be there
She spent way too much time with us.
But we can't let him go.
No way,
No way ever
One day I heard her scream
She said
I saw a woman here
In the chair in the corner.
I asked Ben
He said she's always here.
That's when she passed out with blood
running from her nose.
I rushed her to the hospital,
The doctor said you can see her now.
I put my arms around her and told her I always loved her.
And I gave her a lifesaver from the pack she had given me
So many years ago.
She kissed me and we were close again
No issue no sadness just close.
As we got home
Ben came to me
She is leaving with me. dad.
With the lady.
What lady I said
It's Grandma her mother
We are taking her over with us.
I cried as she left me.
I know she is the only woman in this wide world
That I will be this close too.
But it's OK
I also know in the passing years
Just a blink of an eye really.
We will all be together again.
Some things Maybe forever
Jude