So Shall I Reap (The Unseen Series Book 1) by Kathy-Lynn Cross

Author:Kathy-Lynn Cross [Cross, Kathy-Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clean Teen Publishing
Published: 2015-06-28T23:00:00+00:00

To Kiss Remembrance

Where winter’s breath is felt on skin,

It grows alone, feeling the bite of wind

Where snowflakes fall so not to bruise.

It dreams of someone’s touch of dew

Where the air is crisp and dries one’s tears.

It longs to protect what it wants to hold dear

Where life cannot go but death can follow

It wants to remember why it fights for tomorrow

Where its roots drink from creations flame

It needs just one kiss to remember thy name.

From: T.

I finished the poem with a breathless whisper, “…from T.”

The from part of the poem was signed with only one letter glaring at me. Both forefingers and thumbs holding the card felt as if I had plunged them into ice water. Blood drained from the top half of my core, making each leg throb from the rush. Where tears would have made tracks by now, both cheeks felt more like wind burn from skiing. All I could do was sit there reading the words over and over in silent disbelief. Dumbfounded, swimming in disbelief, I tried to make sense of the poem. The words seemed to reach out to me. Someone was sending me a message, by way of frozen flowers and a stranger named T. What was scarier… he was trying to communicate with me by poetry. Another indication this person knew me.

Blakely was getting impatient with me. Reaching over my shoulder, she whisked the sheet of paper away and read it to herself. I recited it word for word along with her moving lips. As I watched her mouth, a male’s voice was overlapping hers with every syllable. He sounded far away, like beyond a dream. And yet as they recited it together, I knew in my heart, he was nearby.

When she finished, tears formed in her eyes. It had also spoken to her and an emotion of lightheartedness came over me. As quickly as it came, the feeling was replaced by a sense of emptiness. Something had been lost or missing. Facing me with small self-made rain drops on her face, Blakely smiled and handed me back my note.

Bringing both of her hands up to her face, she wiped under each of her lower lashes with her third finger while clearing her throat. “Damn, we know one thing. He’s right up your alley, Lex-Cee. The guy can write.” Blake used her hands to push the chair against the hospital bed and turned it so she could face me when she sat down. “I don’t know what you felt, but it made me glad to feel sad or something close to sadness. So, are you going to see what’s in the box, or should I grab the lid and close it?” She was pretending to lean over both legs to replace the lid when I bolted up, and without thinking snatched the box from its resting place.

Pitched into an Arctic sea, my body reacted as though I had a light case of hypothermia from the dip. With teeth beginning to chatter, I replaced it between Blakely’s arm and the right leg brace.

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