Marielle Miller

It's the journey that counts, not the destination. Good Journey.

Lasts

When people love someone, they remember their first kiss, the first time they held hands, the first time they shared a bed. Not me. I knew the lasts— before they happened: the last time we went to the fair, the last time we watched our favorite movie together, the last time we made love. When he kissed me goodbye that rainy morning, I understood it was for the last time, even before the police came to the door.

How could I know those things? What link between us allowed me to sense when another of our favorites would never be shared again? Was my guardian angel trying to prepare me? I will never know.

When I lost my love, I remembered the first sunrise alone, the first time his birthday passed by and I couldn't give him a gift, the first time I tried to ask his advice and realized I never could.

As I walk beside him now through the mist, I wish I could hold his hand and comfort him, but I fail to touch him. I want to tell him to not despair, but he can’t hear me. He doesn’t know I share every tear that dampens his cheeks. I reach to wipe them away, but my hand passes through them. If only I could turn him back from the fate he seeks, but I know he has already embraced this final last: the last time he will walk this silent lane to the pier where he proposed to me.

Even in this last thing he will ever do on Earth, I want him to know how much I love him. And when he crosses over to my world, I will welcome him with open arms into our life of new beginnings.