To say he loved her would be an understatement.
He adored her like a gardener adored the art of gardening. I can imagine them as newlyweds— her serving hot tea for both of them, and him doing the dishes alongside her. She was not just his deceased wife, or someone he loved back in time: she is the only soul he would love for the rest of his life which is close to death, like a leaf that is close to falling off from a tree.
People use grand gestures to speak of love, to prove their love. But for her, his warmth was enough, and his smile was valuable. For him, only her luminous, ethereal presence brought the will to live. Two souls bound together by marriage, living through different seasons in life, and ultimately falling in love. To find your soulmate in a complete stranger is a rare blessing.
Like the swift current of a river, years floated by.
"In health and sickness," people recite during their wedding vows.
He didn't know that she meant it— He didn't know that she would move him around while he had to use his wheelchair, that she would feed him every one of his meals patiently. She never made him feel like a burden. On the contrary— he was the one person she never wanted to lose.
Perhaps that's why she had to go first.
And when he found her, devoid of life, he searched for her soul everywhere. Under the bed, in the cupboards, among the walls...
Where did his beloved go? Why was she hiding from him?
When realization dawned upon him, he wept, raged—
"Do not touch anything in her room! Let it be, let things stay where they are. Let the room stay the way it did when she felt. Let it be untouched."
He guarded the dozens of sarees she owned, kept in the shelves. Her scent was still living between the folds, carrying a fragment of her self.
After the funeral, he picked up the newspaper and found her photo in the death column. She was gone— she really was gone.
After carefully cutting out the photo, he kept it on his bedside table, and when sleeplessness tormented him, he would stare into those eyes he fell in love with, a lone tear rolling down his cheek.
La tragedia del amor es que pasará.
Apr 3
Apr 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM UTC
To say he loved her would be an understatement.
He adored her like a gardener adored the art of gardening. I can imagine them as newlyweds— her serving hot tea for both of them, and him doing the dishes alongside her. She was not just his deceased wife, or someone he loved back in time: she is the only soul he would love for the rest of his life which is close to death, like a leaf that is close to falling off from a tree.
People use grand gestures to speak of love, to prove their love. But for her, his warmth was enough, and his smile was valuable. For him, only her luminous, ethereal presence brought the will to live. Two souls bound together by marriage, living through different seasons in life, and ultimately falling in love. To find your soulmate in a complete stranger is a rare blessing.
Like the swift current of a river, years floated by.
"In health and sickness," people recite during their wedding vows.
He didn't know that she meant it— He didn't know that she would move him around while he had to use his wheelchair, that she would feed him every one of his meals patiently. She never made him feel like a burden. On the contrary— he was the one person she never wanted to lose.
Perhaps that's why she had to go first.
And when he found her, devoid of life, he searched for her soul everywhere. Under the bed, in the cupboards, among the walls...
Where did his beloved go? Why was she hiding from him?
When realization dawned upon him, he wept, raged—
"Do not touch anything in her room! Let it be, let things stay where they are. Let the room stay the way it did when she felt. Let it be untouched."
He guarded the dozens of sarees she owned, kept in the shelves. Her scent was still living between the folds, carrying a fragment of her self.
After the funeral, he picked up the newspaper and found her photo in the death column. She was gone— she really was gone.
After carefully cutting out the photo, he kept it on his bedside table, and when sleeplessness tormented him, he would stare into those eyes he fell in love with, a lone tear rolling down his cheek.
La tragedia del amor es que pasará.
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