Tired

"Separate us forever."

Never to see him again. To lose him for eternity. Just imagining this final, irremediable, inexorable separation, I could feel it. I closed my eyes and let it take over me, as much as I could, as I would never have the strength or the choice to stop it.

Again this pain, so agonizing, so real and always foreign to me.

- Will you visit your mother, when it is all over, I mean, after you have put an end to this hundred year old misfortune, and turned away from me forever.

I heard him take a deep breath before answering, and in a voice that was difficult to control.

- Didn't I tell you before to let me concentrate, or I'll be forced to erase your voice.

- What a frightening threat, I retorted with an audacity that I felt dangerously growing by the second, as much as his fury, for a simple question.