My wife was here a little why ago; she stood up and said – I’ll be back
Sheisn’t.
I’m still optimistic at the moment.
The other day, a friend turned up who I hadn’t seen for 15 years
He hadn’t seen me either in that time
Last time he was here he had with him a small baby
This time she was a sulking 15 year old who clearly wanted to be anywhere else but here
So she stayed upstairs in the darkest room we have for a whoele week
He also turned up with two other children – one 11 and the other 6
There was a moment when my friend and the mother of the three
children announced that they were off to the river to swim.
The three children decided not to join in.
So suddenly I was at home with the three of them
One sulking, one I would happily klock in a box and one who kept saying hello even though we had said hello three or four times already.
And slowly it dawned on me…
Mum and dad were not coming back.
They live fifteen years and two or three countries away. What would I do?
How would I do it?
The temptaion would be to say – I’ll be back in a moment.
And I can resist anything except temptation.
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