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March 19, 2019

Heartbreak

It was a moment in which it was there and then gone. The letter slipped out of her hands, and she fell to her knees.

We regret to inform you, that your husband, Sargent Grant Sesseby, has passed away due to a gunshot to the heart.

She only felt as though her heart were the one that was shot. The only man she'd ever loved, was gone. Her only child was fatherless. This moment only came in nightmares, she never thought it could become real.

When she fell to her knees, she screamed in grief. She cried with the words "no", on her lips. Craving to feel her beloved's words ring in her ears once more, one more passionate kiss, one more, one more, one more. . .

Kenneline did not move from her bed for a week. Her child wanted her mother more than anything. To know what had happened. Why mommy was crying.

Kenneline's mother took care of the child, and also Kenneline. But she refused to eat, or to leave her room.

One week became two, until her mother was fed up with it. She stormed up to Kenneline's room, and demanded she get up. "If you do not get up," She demanded, "What kind of example are you setting for your daughter? What is she going to think when she sees her mother crying, abandoning her. Grief lasts as long as you make it. It might take a while, but you can't neglect your beautiful child to your needs."

Kenneline took the words in. Got up from the bed, and went downstairs to her daughter. Noting that her mother was right, she needed to be brave. For her daughter.

Kenneline disclosed the information to her daughter, that her father wouldn't be coming home. And her daughter cried for hours into her mother's shoulder.

It was a day of heartache, for the three women. To grieve the lost life of a man who served as their stability, happiness, and financial support. Mostly for Kenneline though, he was her world. And now her world was gone. She felt like she had nothing, but only for a short while. Realizing that her daughter was her world now, and that was all that mattered.

Because she had people to take care, and put her heart back together. Maybe her husband was gone, but it taught her that her family is in people who care, and people who will be there in the worst times.