There you lay; I know you haven’t known me for long. In fact you’ve never even spoken to me. I’ve never seen the color of your eyes. I’ve never heard the sound of your voice, but I hear your breathing, I see your chest rise and the long pauses between your breaths.
I look around the room and see snapshots of the life you’ve lived. There you stand with the love of your life, arms around each other; an unlikely couple you two were. A brave adventure you set out on, two different nationalities, two different backgrounds. I hear that you were broken, abused, and ensnared by addiction before him. I see the pictures, there all so beautiful and filled with history, but you especially are beautiful. I wish I could have worked beside you in your garden, heard your voice and the wisdom you have.
I know you don’t really know me, but you’ve touched my life. Your story, the glimpse I’ve seen, I won’t forget. You’ve given me a gift today, a reminder that life is hard and situations can be exceedingly painful. However, despite all odds you keep walking, even if you have no shoes on your feet, and a thousand miles stretch out before you. You searched for a better tomorrow, a better day then yesterday; so you walked those miles with no shoes, and you found it through determination and a never ending love.
There you lay; the sun light is streaming in and dancing through your white wispy hair. Your family says you’ve always believed in letting life happen, so here you lay, peacefully allowing death to come in and complete the cycle of life.