SILENCE

SILENCE

I remember the moment

It all went still,

It all went quite.

I could see the people

Rushing past me,

A medical emergency they said.

I held his hand

Perhaps for the last time;

So cold, so frail,

Willing him to stay.

The once strong, bold man, reduced,

To crumpled sheets and nothing.

The hero of my life

eternally tired,

no longer resolute,

no longer brave.

As his eyes looked into oblivion

His lips quivered.

He squeezed my hand

And he was no more.

I looked at him,

His face so serene,

No more talking,

No more playful,

An eternal silence

Set up on me

A Silence that

Shall never fade.

A Silence soon

would tear one's soul apart.

I bid him farewell,

Not shedding a tear,

As the storm had not reached yet.

It was silent still,

Calm,inert;

Numb to any feeling.

I promise him

I shall make him proud one day

I promise him

I shall strive to become like him.

Never to forget

The lessons he has taught me.

Never to forget

The stories he has told me.

I looked at him one last time,

Held his hand one last time;

Shaking all over,

Knowing I shall

Never feel the same,

Again

I promise him,

My dear grandfather,

The hero of my life

I shall remember him always

As I walk away from him slowly,

A gloomy dark fog embraces me

Turning my world bleak and grey.

And the eternal silence

A constant companion,

It becomes.