"Mommy watch me!" Finn yells at me as he does a
summersault on the lawn.
"Mommy I have a present for you! Guess what it
is!" I lean down "what is it honey?" he wraps his warm little
arms around me in a tight bear hug. "I love you mommy! to the moon and
back!" How I relish these words. Rely
on these memories.
"Look Mommy God is painting the sky, that is why it is
so pretty huh"
I think of all the times I let these words slip by without
listening. Regretting not cherishing
every single moment I had with my precious son. These thoughts swim through my
mind as the tears pour down my cheeks. Then the anger hits again.
"Why?!" why did I have to lose
my most precious gift.
"I am sorry your son didn't make it. The smoke was more
than his little lungs could handle. He passed away the night of the fire, Your
body was so badly burned we had to keep you in a medically induced coma. The
pain was putting so much strain on your heart. " Always at this point in
my mind I hear Benson begin to sob "Callie I wanted to wake you up so bad...
let you see his little face one more time before we buried him. But...we just couldn't."
He wraps his arms around me and sobs into my shoulder. I just feel cold and
dead inside. I will never gaze into those beautiful blue eyes ever again. For
his tiny little body is buried deep within the darkness of the earth. The
hardest part to believe is that it was 2 weeks ago all this happened. The last
thing I remember was clutching his small body to my chest as we leapt to safety
and it was going to be okay....he was okay!!!!
I let out a scream of anguish as I open my eyes. 'When does the pain go away?' how can my heart
possibly handle it? Every moment I feel as though it will break or that my
whole body with just explode into tiny pieces. Part of me wishes for this. One
thing that is for certain is my whole body aches for Finns small body snuggled
into my own as we lay here together. I
get up out of bed and run out of the room screaming....."Ben!!!!"