that afternoon the skies cried with me.

The silence bathed the dim room. My body was cold and your touch was melting me. Your pain wrung my heart. As if feeling my pain, the heaven's hushed sobs grew louder. I was in your arms, my whole being shaken by tears. It was that single thought that terrorized and shattered me. That same thought that you provoked with that one question I would have given you an answer to had that thought eluded the scene.

Echoes of that phrase soothed the pain. Forever will I keep those words you whispered to me...those words that at that moment restored my inner calm.

Outside, it became still. The skies having doused troubles, seemed pleased with itself.

Then just so slowly, it was sunny in our world again.