One year later, she stood at the gravesite once again. She
stands taller than she had before. A newer confidence held her head high. She
reads the inscription and smiles. “Hi my loves. I’ve come to say goodbye. I
will never understand how I lost you both but knowing you are together helps
past the days until I can be reunited with you. Every day I have to learn how
to say goodbye and I know it will take a lifetime. There’s no life for me here
anymore that you are gone. Friends don’t know how to act around me so they no
longer call or invite me places. I guess I understand that. I no longer fit in
their world. They’ve found new friends with children their kids’ age. They have
moved on and so must I. I know they still care for me but I’m a reminder that
life doesn’t always work out like you hope and dream. I’m moving home to Mom’s.
There’s a job opening there and it would be a fresh start that I know you would
want me to take.”
She lays flowers down and lovingly caresses the granite. She
got up, turning to walk away. At the office door, she sees the funeral
director, she smiles and waves. He gives her a salute as if to say “I’ll take
care of them.” She walks away with one final look at the gravestone. “Goodbye,
my loves. I take your memory with me” she whispers as she turns around to start
a new chapter in her life.
John Michael Harrison
March 3, 1988 -
October 29, 2012
John Michael
Harrison, Jr.
October 29, 2012
Father and Son
together forever
Dedicated to all our
loved ones who are gone but never forgotten!
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