If you could only carry one memory with you into the afterlife, which would you choose?

[shadowed_kat]

I want to remember so much.

I want to remember the feel of a hand in mine.

I want to remember my mother’s laugh.

I want to remember soulswords and Excalibur, friends and foes, X-Men and Hellfire Clubs, New Mutants and X-Factor.

I want to remember what it’s like to surprise someone by walking through a wall into their face.

I want to remember how my father died.

I want to remember the feeling of letting go completely of everything about my life, of control, and I want to remember the rigidity of holding on to it.

I want to remember slumber parties as a child, and pale hands pressing a coffee mug into mine as an adult.

I want to exist as I am now, not to lose anything with death beyond a pulse and heartbeat and rhythm of my breathing.

I want, I want, I want.

But I guess I want too much.

One memory?

I want to remember Michael smiling at me.

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