Love will come
Author-Brooke Head
Word count- 317
Status- Completed, un-Beta’d
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At the age of fourteen, when asked “what is love?” I hesitated. I’d gone all my life assuming I knew about love but when asked to put it into words, I came up blank.
Slowly the days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months but still I couldn’t find the answer that question.
Getting frustrated, I decided to ask my grandmother, who had obviously lived many more years than I had.
But, she too proved to be of no help.
“that is something you must find out on your own my child.” she said wisely.
Years passed and still I’d yet to answer the question, though I’d long forgotten about it.
And then one day, at the age of 85, my angelic fourteen year old granddaughter came up to me and asked
“What is love?” just like I had to my grandmother long ago.
I thought back to all my memories and experiences and asked myself, what IS love?
And, for the first time, I realized I knew the answer.
Love is the ocean on a hot summers day, the wind in your hair as you ride a bike down a steep hill, the joy of freedom and the carelessness of childhood. Love is gazing into someone’s eyes and know they’re the one. Love is this, talking to your beautiful grandchildren. Love is everything.
Yet, instead of answering her , I said
“My dear child, that is something you must find out for yourself.
She just sighed, and just like I had to my grandmother, rolled her eyes.
I smiled and thought, sweet child of mine, don’t you worry, love will come. Just have patience.
When death finally came to claim me one day, I was able to go easily and smiling because I knew that after all these years, I knew that I’d gone through life surrounded by love, and I was content..
Le fin
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