A Fallen Love

3. The Loss and Gain of Hope

My love,

Something most terrible and wonderful thing has happen to me, I'll start from the begining.

I was on scout duty when my unit was called up to run the land, try go over the front lines and try to gain ground on the Germans, I was terrified almost no one comes back from it.

We ran up the trench, it was raining hard and it was pitch black in front of us, we ran as fast as we could, screaming in terror and determination, as we did so the Germans were alerted and opened fire, people dropping like flies around me, it was haunting, how easily life is taken from us, a split second and we're gone like the wind, flirting with desth as pain seizes their bodies, crumpling in on themselves, paper in the hands of children.

I was almost upon the German trenches, I could see the light of their comanders sleeping quarters when a bomb landed next to me, blowing me into the dark sky, flying in the endless oblivion.

Later I woke up in agony, I couldn't feel my leg but it hurt so, so much. I crawled back to the trenches, thinking that I had to get back, to keep fighting for our country, for you.

Luckily me and this other soldier -Weathers- made it back. He was shot several times, we were sent further back in the lines. He went to a medical tent, not that it was a tent in reality, rather a two peices of cloth over the top and one in front to keep people out.

Unfortunately Weathers didn't make it through the night, the doctor said the bullet hit too many places and he died of blood loss, I feel sad, sad that I yet again couldn't help someone, I feel so useless.

In light of everything that has happened, the doctor has ordered me to return home, that I am no longer needed in the war, but i know he thought I was useless, I'm a cripple, a good for nothing cripple who can't even stand without some form of support.

But I can see you, and this time, I'm not giving up on us.

Jesse