~ Our Good Bye ~

We just finished our dinner and I'd gone In the den and turned on the TV she walked In and KISSED me on the cheek like a MILLION times before and she said HONEY I know It's late, but If you don't mind, my shopping's gotten a little behind so I think I'll drive downtown to the grocery store.


Well, I didn't look up, just nodded OK and asked her to hand me an ashtray and when she did, I reached over and squeezed her hand and then she left, I shuttered a minute at the thought of my world.


Without her In It I reassuringly sought the touch of my wedding band. Well, I must have been dozing cause I didn't hear the door.


I thought now that's strange, I'd never done that before, but I looked up and she was standing by my chair, kinda snuck In on me I said she smiled and nodded her head and I told her that she looked just like an ANGEL standing there.


For a long moment she didn't say a thing then she caressed her gold wedding ring I thought I saw a TEARDROP In her eye. HONEY, you'll never know how much I LOVE you, she said and I thought of the many years we'd been wed as I told her that no one can be as happy as I.


Then, the strangest feeling filled the room, not one of happiness but of gloom and for the first time In my life I saw sadness In her face. I reached out to touch her and she drew away and she told me again that OURS was a LOVE that time could never erase.


And then I thought I heard a thousand voices singing, but I realized It was the telephone ringing that's when I saw the HALO surround her pretty golden hair.


I turned trembling to the receiver and heard a cold voice say that there had been a wreck out on the highway and I knew that when I looked back she would't be there.


Because It was an Angel's way of saying our LAST GOOD-BYE Always leave your loved ones with loving words......