Caroline's Swing

As I stare outside of my bedroom window with a July's summer’s breeze against my face, a tear rolls down my cheek as I remember a year ago when I lost my one true love. I stare out at the tree you and I used to sit under and talk for hours until the sunset. I remember the swing you built for our tree and how you were always frustrated when the swing wasn’t what you wanted. The day you finally got the swing how you wanted, you had the biggest smile on your face. I remember sitting on the new swing, you told me you named it Caroline’s Swing. On the bottom you had written Caroline and Rink Forever and Always. As I remember the tear I shed when I saw that is the same tear I shed a year later. Everyday I went out to sit on the swing even the day’s you were gone. To this day I still go out and sit just to remember your touch on my shoulders when you would push me. I always told you higher and higher; you always said I was crazy to want to go that high. The day I received the phone call from the police station telling me that you were in a plane crash and didn’t survive my life ended. Day’s upon day’s I cried thinking my life was over. The next few months went slow and so did the day I went into labor with your child. Hours later I had your wonderful son Rink Jr. he is the most beautiful baby boy I’d ever seen. When I came home from the hospital with our son my life actually started to get better even though I would never have my love in my arms again. Rink Jr. has become a wonderful boy even with a year that has past. As I watch down on the swing I find myself looking down at our son, on our swing. Every time I look at him I see you in his face, it gives me the strength to live; to live for our son knowing you are looking down on us. Finally the sun breaks through the clouds and a wonderful ray of sunlight shines right on the swing, I cry more but not tears of sadness anymore but pure happy ones. I know now I’m not alone or will I ever be alone.