So, I missed my chance to post a blog post last week as I was busy with being lazy, so, in an effort I purposed myself to write the love letter of an old man to his wife. I don't much know how great it will turn out, but nonetheless it's a bit of work. Enjoy!
“You used to sit there, you used to
sit in that very chair and smoke those cigarettes with the hearts on
the filter. Smoking them, like you were kissing old lovers once more,
like each one would bring you some sort of brief bliss from the
squalor we lived in. The spark of your lighter bringing me from my
paper to your face, my eyes staring with a sense of contempt before I
would flash you the brightest of smiles. My eyes must've given me
away quite a few times as I went back to my paper, they were tired
eyes, eyes full of memories, eyes longing to forget, eyes longing to
go blind to the world that we had created. You'd simply breathe in
the carcinogens, holding them in your lungs as your shirt stretched
fast against your breasts. I remember how I once lusted for you, once
desired your form, once wanted to never stop touching such delicate
beauty, once. Ah, but even now I can see that what we had is long
gone. What was it you had said to me before? 'Beauty is in the Eyes
of the Beholder'? I hardly remember what was said yesterday, it's
hard to imagine I could remember something said all those years ago.
I could remember seeing that sly smirk tugging at your lips, edging
on a smile as you pressed your body to mine, urging me to dance in
that old dance hall. My throat was so tight I felt like I would
suffocate if I had done more than a waltz, but you opened me up to
your devilish charm.
A sweet scent of roses, that was what
you always wore, it was muddled behind the smoke, but it was there.
Like a feather on a pillow, it was subtle, but it was there. Our
first drink, sneaking in through the back of that tavern, my hands
fumbling with my wallet while you had already downed every dripping
drop of beer in your glass and had proceeded to drink from mine. We
laughed as we walked home later, and then you stopped and we kissed
in front of an old couple's apartment. They stuck their heads out the
window and cheered us on as we giggled and ran off into the night.
Your legs were so strong in those days, you ran everywhere, and when
you weren't running, you were dancing, or skipping, or standing, or
just walking. Anything you did would've made you a princess to
strangers. I remember when you broke your ankle, the world crashed as
you fell from the front steps, an earth quake happening precisely as
you fell would've been insane enough for anyone to believe, but I was
there.
You cried the pain was so bad, you
cried so much that the blue sky turned an ominous black and the rain
began to fall. I remember having to run with you in my arms to the
hospital, you stopped crying as you clutched my shirt, but the rain
didn't stop. Memories are great things...
Remember that time when you looked into
the toy shop? Those children waved at you and we waved back, you
smiled and it was as if those children had seen the most glorious
thing they would ever see. That is what I see everyday I wake up to
you. I remember the very words you said to me, the day you left, “and
don't forget to smile, you grumpy bastard.”
The photograph I took turned out
brilliantly, you would've been proud of the bowtie and suit I wore.
But you couldn't have been. You weren't there to see it. The world
seemed to be gloomy the rest of that day. There was even an awkward
silence about the city, like everyone had already known what I did
not. Now, here you lay, your body interred, your gravestone a simple
marble monument, and the worst of it all is that damned cold nipping
at my hands. The world is getting dizzy and so I guess it's time
already. I've come to lay with you my dear, I've come to be with you
in my final moments, because I can hardly bear the thought of being
without you, even after all these years.
None of the people that I've met over
my lifetime could make the world tremble, could make the clouds move,
or make the rain fall. You will always be my world shaker."
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