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.