BLACK MAGIC-
Some of the most substantial events in our lives can be like lightning in the night sky.
Illuminating our world with an unparalleled intensity for but a moment. The booming echo heard from even miles and miles away.
When I got the call about you it came as a shock.
You were on my mind the day it all went wrong. Fresh faced, but broken nonetheless.
I stared blankly at my find. The bag was wax, glassine, with a stamp that read “Black Magic.”
She held me so close. Her warm loving embrace filling the emptiness you’d left behind.
Her crooked smile never bothered me much, when I was with her. She filled the emptiness. She filled it so well.
That cavern in my chest, the abyss, that ineffable black hole grew larger. She filled it so well.
She held me when you couldn’t.
Seeing you in that gown, in that bed, somewhere else, was surreal.
Memories washed through my mind like raging floodwaters. Branches snapping, trees uprooted, unearthing silt, stones, swirling, smashing, landscapes shifting.
All of the words I’d left unspoken.
It happened so suddenly. Your aneurysm – the aftermath.
It’s impossible to explain how one flatline on an LCD screen can change everything.
Words can’t describe what it was like weeping in the waiting room struggling to accept.
Long ago, before I understood why you couldn’t put the bottle down; long before the Black Magic got ahold of me… I hoped to never see you again.
I just wanted you to know, I miss you Dad.
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