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Over Fifty Years


Walking into my grandparents’ old house, the smells

of the decaying skin of elderly folk, of Asian food,

of smoky Chinese incense wafted gently

through the air on a bare breeze to welcome me.

 

Ancient Chinese landscape paintings decorated the decrepit walls

of the small house. On the shelves were an array of

little porcelain statues of the Buddha. Grandpa and Grandma

had their favorite chairs pointed towards each other.

 

Grandpa and Grandma had together lived happily for

over fifty years. Those seemingly infinite years were

spent loving one another in China, in Vietnam,

and in America, with ten children to cherish.

 

Then, on a warm summer day,

she passed away under the watchful eyes of

her husband and her many children. Grandpa cried,

and they cried, my parents cried, and I cried.

 

Walking into my grandpa’s old house, the smells

of the decaying skin of elderly folk, of Asian food,

of smoky Chinese incense wafted gently

through the air on a bare breeze to welcome me.

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