“I’m not going to look back, ok?”
I pull him a little closer, leaning into him, “Ok baby.”
“I can’t.”
I nod, “It’s ok, I understand.”
More kissing, a desperate clinging, touching, petting, a terrible reluctance.
“Who do you belong to, baby?”
“I belong to you, Ma’am,” he whispers in my ear.
I nod again, kisses, an inhalation of final tenderness, and underneath a yawning emptiness, a rising bitterness in my mouth already.
I finally pull away, “Bye beautiful. I miss you.”
“I miss you too… bye Ma’am.”
We part and I watch him walk away.
I wait.
He turns to look back, and I feel my heart swell. He smiles sheepishly, caught. He blows me a kiss, and then another before he turns away again.
He gets a little further before he looks back again. I am still watching him, I am glad to see his face, I am made fuller, knowing that he has to make those last little connections with me. He waves.
He gives up the pretence then, and turns twice more before he makes it around the corner. I fight the urge to call him back to me, imagining his loping walk, his eagerness to do as he is bid giving his step a spring, and there would be more kissing.
I am happy for those final glimpses, for his need, for the smiles and air borne kisses, for those last little pieces that I can put in my pocket before I turn and walk away.
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It is so heartening to hear such a sad thing handled with grace, and reflected on with beauty. I do not believe such acts go unrewarded.
Respectfully, Étienne
A very sweet and touching post. One thing that you can be certain of is that you and your boy will always remain a part of each other.
Beautiful. It's wonderful to feel the same way about each other. Even when it's painful, it's wonderful.
Étienne: “It is so heartening to hear such a sad thing handled with grace, and reflected on with beauty. I do not believe such acts go unrewarded.”
Thank you Étienne, for the sweetness. Those moments, even the terrible, sad ones, are what make up the memories that you keep for a long time. Getting them on the page is both catharsis and tribute for me.
Ferns
slapshot: “A very sweet and touching post. One thing that you can be certain of is that you and your boy will always remain a part of each other.”
Thank you. I want to make a joke about how my boy has no doubt forgotten all about me already, but I just don't have it in me *smile*.
Ferns
Three Sexketeers: “Beautiful. It's wonderful to feel the same way about each other. Even when it's painful, it's wonderful.”
Thank you, TS. And I agree, it *is* wonderful, yes, even when it's painful and even at the end.
Ferns
This makes my chest clench.
Faith
Faith: “This makes my chest clench.”
Me too.
Ferns
Also doing the chest clench thing.
Thinking of you…
Mistress160: “Thinking of you…”
I appreciate the kind thoughts and the chest clenching (great phrase from Faith!), thank you.
Ferns