LOVE
AND INTIMACY
Love is a force more formidable than any
other It is invisible it cannot be seen or measured yet is powerful enough to
transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession
ever could.
Sophia and joe are in relationship for a long
time, one day Sophia was sitting in the armchair that Joe had bought for her on
one of the Sophia birthday. The room was warm and quiet. Outside it was snowing
lightly. At a quarter past one the mailman turned the corner onto wakucha
Street.
Joe
was behind on his route, not because of the snow, but because it was
Valentine's Day and there was more mail than usual. He passed Sophie's house
without looking up. Twenty minutes later he climbed back into his truck and
drove off. Sophie stirred when she heard the mail truck pull away, then took
off her glasses and wiped her mouth and eyes with the handkerchief she always
carried in her sleeve.
She pushed herself up using the arm of the
chair for support, straightened slowly and smoothed the lap of her dark green
housedress. Her slippers made a soft, shuffling sound on the bare floor as she
walked to the kitchen. She stopped at the sink to wash the two dishes she had
left on the counter after lunch. Then she filled a plastic cup halfway with
water and took her pills.
It was one forty- five. There was a rocker in
the sitting room by the front window. Sophie eased herself into it. In a
half-hour the children would be passing by on their way home from school.
Sophie waited, rocking and watching the snow. The boys came first, as always,
running and calling out things Sophie could not hear..........
To
be continue
By
peter felister
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