The Price of Dawn
5:51 am
Payton,
Time is slipping away from me. The sky is beginning to lighten and I know I only have about an hour before dawn breaks. I just don’t want them to take you away. I mean, I know you’re never coming back. Hell, I’ve known that for months. As soon as they said the treatment was no longer working I knew I only had a precious amount of time left with you. I’ve tricked myself into thinking that you’re just sleeping. It’s been three days since you’ve responded to me or the doctors but I’ve spent the last three days telling myself that you’re just sleeping and will wake up any time now. Deep down though, I know that the leukemia has taken you and, if it wasn’t for the machines hooked up to you, you would have left us three days ago.
Love,
Eddie
Time is slipping away from me. The sky is beginning to lighten and I know I only have about an hour before dawn breaks. I just don’t want them to take you away. I mean, I know you’re never coming back. Hell, I’ve known that for months. As soon as they said the treatment was no longer working I knew I only had a precious amount of time left with you. I’ve tricked myself into thinking that you’re just sleeping. It’s been three days since you’ve responded to me or the doctors but I’ve spent the last three days telling myself that you’re just sleeping and will wake up any time now. Deep down though, I know that the leukemia has taken you and, if it wasn’t for the machines hooked up to you, you would have left us three days ago.
Love,
Eddie