Memories...Out of the Darkness
(I wrote this last week for an assignment in my writing group. It's about today.) If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It’s all or nothing. In this damn world, it’s all or nothing. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. ~Desmond Tutu The ringing telephone shattered the midnight silence. An almost-strange voice, choked with emotion, filled my ears with even stranger words- “This is Jamie, Shannon’s brother. I am so sorry…Carl was diving with Dan in a zenote in the Yucatan…he drowned. I am so very sorry…” the rest of the words lost in the roaring in my head, the dreadful tearing sound of my heart breaking, the harsh rasping of my sobs as tears streamed down my cheeks…as I sought for and grabbed at sanity in a world suddenly gone mad. There was more conversation, I know…some details about official things- the authorities and cremation and death