Storytelling
In The Garden
It’s hard to make some journeys, those going away.
I knew what I was doing; this would be our last weekend together. I have known many perfect moments, been a hunter for them all my life. But I never expected a day as perfect as the one she gave me before leaving.
I told her I was afraid, not knowing anything about where I was going.
But it was done. The decision was made. It was my choice. I have no idea how I will be met. There would be no doubt, in her mind, where I was going.
I would not let her ask me what it was I most wanted before the trip. It would be the longest we were ever apart. There was nothing she could give me that hadn’t always been in her eyes, and I could see it whenever she folded my shirts or instructed me on how to fold trousers to make sure that they would not look creased when I got them out to wear them. She was so sure I would not bother to find an iron.
Leaving on a weekday was my decision. We would have the weekend at home, just the two of us, in the garden overlooking the shoreline. I was sure in my aloneness, planning for the loneliness yet to come. It was something I had to do.
Before leaving, I wanted to say so many grand things, but they weren’t grand at all in the end. I remember the welling in my heart that first day I saw her coming along the path to where I was seated. She wore blue jeans, a white blouse, and a lemon cardigan.
I thanked her for agreeing to give me an overdose of morphine. Enough to send me away. The doctor had diagnosed my illness as terminal. There would be no post-mortem.
My last request was to have her play Van Mossison’s — In The Garden.
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