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Traumatic tea

by Lauren-Patricia

The other night you made me a cup of tea. We bickered because I stole your chocolate. I was always stealing your chocolate. Chocolate is my fave, and I'd find it and eat it however well you thought you'd hid it. But as we drank our tea, I couldn't shake the feeling that something was not right. And then I looked at you, and realised what was wrong. You had died. I held your hand as you took your last breath... And yet here we were, drinking tea, and bickering over chocolate. It was a mistake you told me. You hadn't died! You woke up in the morgue, and had only just found your way home. "Holy shit" I thought. Who on earth did we hold the funeral for? You laughed as I worried about the mix up. "This is serious!" I said. But you kept on bloody laughing. Always did have a dark sense of humour you. My tea went cold as I wondered how I was going to tell everyone you were alive. Then I opened my eyes. Tears stung them to life. And then I realised that you were gone. Relieved I didn't have to tell people of the awful mistake. I was happy. Happy you visited. Happy you know where to find me...
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Published
May 28, 2015
Time
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Tags
#love#dream#illness#sadness#death#grief#parents#mum#darkhumour
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