How to save a life
He looked at me, asking if it’s all ok. He knew it wasn’t, but he needed to hear something else. Part of me wanted to lie, part of me wanted to say what’s politically right the way we’ve been told to. But the greatest part of me wanted to tell the truth as a fellow human being.
I stood there staring at him for awhile. And I left. I couldn’t bring myself to say a thing at all.
This isn’t the way things are meant to be. I’m not ready for this, and maybe I never will be. The matter was soon forgotten and life goes on.
Our lives, that is. Not hers.
