Where I am Today

~Part 5~

Part 1

Tapped along her walls were old photos that pictured her childhood and her growing up. She cherished these photos more than anything. In some of the photos, she was a little girl exploring the nature and beauty of life. More recent photos were snapshots of her and her best friends being silly. Her twin bed was placed neatly next to the double hung windows that allowed the bright light to flow into her room. Next to the neatly made bed was a small brown night stand that held a variety of items such as perfume, lotion, and a stack of books, all written by the same author. Her floor was a bamboo colored hardwood and her walls a tea-cup white. In the closet located near the doorway was placed a small handmade bookshelf filled completely with books to the point where if she placed on more on there, it would probably break. She had more books in her closet then cloths. Her room was a get away place for her. The light atmosphere, the gently breeze that would occasionally find its way through the window's cracks, and the memories that will never fade away.

Part 2

The gentle touch of two different old hands touched. The old man leaned over his wife's hospital bedside as he heard the faint sound of a monitor beeping. He heard the faint whispers of nurses, doctors, and other patients out in the hallway. Tension and anxiety lingered in the air. Their life memories and moments began to play over and over in his head. How they met, how they fell in love and got married, the birth of their children, then when his children started the life of their own. His heart sped up, his eyes felt heavy and dreary. Never in a lifetime would he consider this is where he would be. Sitting next to a bed, next to his dying wife that he has been loving non stop for the last seventy years since they were twenty six. The old man didn't know what he was going to do once she had passed. He had always thought he would be the first to go and he dreaded the thought of being alone in the big world. Not much time, he thought, and when he looked up he saw that his wife's face was relaxed, she was silent and was still. The monitor once gave off a light beeping sound. Now it seemed as if the world has fallen silent.