Written for MLMM Monday Wordle.
Here’s where the prompts took me.
cold, day, father, held, just, known,
rain, resolve, six, small, time, and renew
It was a cold dark day when Henry’s father was buried. Six pallbearers carried the casket through the rain, their black umbrellas trembling in the wind. Henry held his mother’s hand, squeezing it whenever her shoulders began to shake.
He was just nine years old …. too small, people said, to understand loss. But Henry had known grief before, when the family dog had died, when his grandmother had faded quietly away. He understood it well enough.
After the last prayer was spoken, he made a silent promise not to mourn forever, but to renew his father’s memory by living as his father did …. with wisdom, compassion, and resolve.
The cold would pass in time; it always did. And Henry would carry his father forward, with him always.
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This is “Dad’s Don’t Die” by Nate Smith
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