Sixty Years Later

    They were still in love sixty years later. They died only a few months apart. I found this on their dresser, the topper to their wedding cake.

    They lived a whole life together.

    I will never forget them and the example that they set for me.

    They found happiness in the simplest of things.

    He would ask her "what do I like?" when they went out to eat and he would have to order.

    After she died they brought him into the room. Since the stroke he didn't talk to much... most of the time he didn't make sense... you couldn't tell if he was really aware or not... I watched him closely for some sign that he understood the significance of this moment... that he knew that she wasn't coming back.

    I saw his eyes comprehend her death... and I saw that agony move down to the center of his being... from the inside of my grandfather... from deep within the core if him there came this sound... like the wail of a banshee it was the sound of pure heartbreak and angst.

    In my life I have never heard such a sound. Terrifying in one way, deeply moving in another it had such a primitive dimension to it.

    I will never forget that sound.

    Comments and faves

    1. joorgawt (49 months ago | reply)

      very cool

      well done

    2. spoogysprouts (47 months ago | reply)

      this almost made me cry. lovely picture to go with a truly amazing and touching story

    3. WIFEY SHOOTS! (47 months ago | reply)

      This did make me cry. Over and over I have read how after one spouse passes, the other will within a short period of time die of a broken heart. Never, i really do mean "never," has this phenomonon been related to me with such beautiful emotion.Thanks!

    4. Viewminder (47 months ago | reply)

      In our lives there are probably but a handfull of moments that touch us as deeply as this moment touched me and everyone in that room.

      If love had a sound and pain had a sound and you wove those sounds together and amplified them a hundred times... that was the sound he made.

      He didn't need to use words, that sound said everything.

      I could never get over how horrifying and beautiful it was at the same time.

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    6. CA.T (29 months ago | reply)

      I love what you wrote.
      This makes me think of the movie "UP", by Pixar. I cried SO much watching that movie... But it was an exemple of true love.

    7. Viewminder (29 months ago | reply)

      I thought the same thing when I saw that movie!

    8. j_9d9 (29 months ago | reply)

      I can't begin to tell you how much this pure sentiment and wonderful writing touches my soul..and how much I've thought of this since I stumbled across it. This radiates my memories of my one and only true love. Although we are not together, I know that someday, I will feel this if I happen to live longer than him. How very beautiful.
      And I agree about the "Up" reference even though I didn't initially think of it.That movie made me sob.

    9. Viewminder (29 months ago | reply)

      Thank you for your words. I have never seen a moment so horrible yet so beautiful all at the same time. It felt like I had seen true love die. And it felt like I had at the same time seen true love.That sound will always be with me.

    10. Kat110168 (29 months ago | reply)

      Wow, okay this is pretty deep - and lovely that they even shared this together.

    11. Viewminder (29 months ago | reply)

      It was the sound of true love losing one half of itself. Theirs was the greatest, truest and deepest love that I have ever seen. I was so lucky to have come from it... I am so grateful to have seen it... I am so happy that I was there.

    12. mirandrew (28 months ago | reply)

      very deep and cool, i agree

    13. Viewminder (28 months ago | reply)

      Thank you Mirandrew... it was one of the most powerfully impacting moments of my life.

    14. suenosdeuomi (26 months ago | reply)

      Truly touching, thank you for sharing.

    15. ♥ Chelsea Photography (26 months ago | reply)

      Wow -- I can barely type as I am wiping away my tears!!
      What an story to remember!
      God Bless You <3 !!

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