The Last Good-bye

We just finished our dinner and I'd gone in the den and turned on the T.V.
She walked in and kissed me on the cheek like a million times before. She
said, "Honey, I know its late, but if you don't mind, my shoppings gotten
a little behind so I think I'll drive down to the grocery store."
Well, I didn't look up, just nodded okay, and asked her to hand me an
ashtray and when she did I reached over and squeezed her hand, and then
she left. I shuttered a minute at the thought of my world without her in it.
I reassuringly sought the touch of my wedding band.
Well, I must have been dozing, cause I didn't hear the door, I thought
that's strange I 'd never done that before. But I looked up and she was
standing by my chair, kinda snuck in on me I said she nodded her head
and I told her she looked just like an Angel standing there. For a long
moment she didn't say a thing, then she caressed her gold wedding ring.
I thought I saw a teardrop in her eye. "Honey you'll never know how much
I love you," she said. And I thought of how many years we'd been wed as
I told her that no one can be as happy as I.
Then the strangest feeling filled the room, not one of happiness but of
gloom, and for the first time in my life I saw sadness in her face. I
reached out to touch her and she drew away, and she told me again that
ours was a love that time could not erase. And then I thought I heard
a thousand voices singing, but I realized it was the telephone ringing.
That's when I saw the halo surround her pretty golden hair.
I turned trembling to the reciever and heard a cold voice say that there
had been a wreck out on the highway and I knew when I looked back she wouldn't be there.
Because it was and Angels way of saying our last good-bye.

Always leave your loved ones with loving words...