Perfect Paradise

Perfect Paradise

The grass was cool and refreshing on her feet but the wet grass tickled her toes and made her impatient for the soft warmth of the sand. She gazed, half squinting at the ocean as it shimmered and glistened in the pale morning sun. The sun danced on the gentle waves hypnotising her and slowing her walk to a snail’s pace. She reached the sand. This is where they had first met, this is where they had first kissed, this is where they had fallen in love. This place was everything to them.

Her gaze was broken by salty tears stinging her eyes. She stared, entranced by the strobing drops of shimmering, shining sunlight that danced on the fluorescent pale blue ocean. Slowly she walked across the sand, her footsteps becoming heavier as she tried to conceive how she was going to was going to make it without him. "First I was afraid..." she thought. She closed her eyes and dreamed that she might see him hurrying towards her, smiling and holding out his arms for her to run into. She felt salty bubbles form on her eye lashes and squeezed her eyes tight trying to hang on to the make believe.

She opened her eyes and looked at the water lapping at the beach . Hazily through her tears she watched them both walking with bare feet in the cool ocean, their hands locked in each others grasp, lovers,  never to let go. She smiled at the happiness she had felt that day and tried to pull back her tears. They were just engaged and so in love. She had promised him that she wouldn’t cry. It was so romantic, he had bought her here, to their beach, their place. He had picked the perfect evening. The beautiful sunset and not a soul around. Just the two of them on the vast deserted beach, their love spreading to every corner and every crevice of their perfect paradise.

His eyes were clear and pale and blue, sparkling with love, with love that she knew was only meant for her. Softly he took her hand and elegantly lowered down onto his knee. He said the words that she would never forget. "Will you marry me?"

She sobbed and felt her pain and anguish gushing from her mouth, eyes and nose. She wiped it on her sleeve and dropped to her knees

"They were not the only words I will never forget my love" She whispered to herself, remembering him returning from the doctors on that fateful, hateful afternoon.

So much she would never forget.

She reached the dune where he had made her the happiest woman in the world and wept uncontrollably as she set him free on the wind, wide across their beloved beach.  She watched him fly, exploring, and for one last time she shared their paradise together.