Moonlit love

I sit here on a moon lit night darkness surrounds me. As I sit listening to the waves crash against the shore and watch the light dance across the ocean waves with the smell of the salt fresh in the air. In the distance I see a figure slowly walking along the shore coming in my direction, as the figure moves ever so close I can see that it is a woman, gray hair glowing in the light of the moon she draws closer and I can now see the figure is of an old woman. The light hits her face and I can see that she has tears in her eyes she is now a few feet from me and in a fragile voice she says hello I return the greeting with a quaint smile. The woman asks if I would mind her sitting with me for a while I tell her that I do not mind for I can see that sadness has taken her. The woman slowly sits and just stares into the ocean tears slowly streaming from her face, I cannot help but feel the pain she is showing so I ask why on such a beautiful night she is so sad. The woman who seems so familiar to me turns with a half-hearted smile and says that today would have been her fortieth anniversary but her husband has been gone for many years to many to remember but that she will never forget. In the middle of the conversation she asks if we have ever met before, for I look like someone she once knew. I thought for a moment and said that she was very familiar to me but that we had never met. The woman just turned and looked into the ocean after a few seconds she asked why I would be sitting here all alone I then tell the woman that I also have an anniversary today and that my wife has also passed on she looks deep into my eyes and expresses her sympathy for such a young man to lose a love. I thank her and smile. After a few minutes go by I tell the woman that it has been so nice to meet her but that I must go now as she turns with a smile so familiar she looks but yet unknown to me the woman asks me my name I tell her it is Samuel with a look of utter sadness she said that was her lost husbands name a sudden chill rose in me but I smiled and said goodbye to her I started to walk away still thinking of the lonely woman after a few paces I turned to look back the woman’s head down sobs rolling across the beach a few more steps and I turn again as I looked toward the woman I notice that there are no footprints in the sand where I have been walking I now realize that I was the woman’s husband and she was my wife and I will miss her love as she mine.