ISSN: 1391 - 0531
Sunday December 2, 2007
Vol. 42 - No 27
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A year on and I miss you even more, Daddy

Bryan Paul Senanayake

Three-hundred and sixty-five days have gone by since you left me forlorn, and yet it feels like yesterday that I heard your voice and held your hand. There hasn’t been one single day, not one, that has passed without a thought of you, Daddy. There is so much I long to tell you or just be beside you, as you sit in your armchair watching the sun go down.

When I look into our daughter’s eyes, I can’t help but think how much you would have loved her and how much you would have enjoyed being with her. She already knows so much about you, how much you loved rugby, your travels and zest for life. I was going through your many dozens of photographs the other day, and it made me smile to see you smile in every one of your travels across the globe.

I know you are still smiling, because you are with Our Lord Jesus and Mother Mary. Something shut within my heart the day you left, Daddy, and the pain is still there.… I know it will only subside, when I see you on the other side… and what a glorious day that will be, Daddy.

No one can fill the emptiness I feel in my heart without your physical presence but I know that your spirit is with me and I pray that you will always be with me. If God would grant me one power, just to turn back the pages of time, Oh! What I’d do just to hear your voice and hold you one last time.

I can easily refute the cliché, ‘time heals’ … because with each passing day, I miss you more.

With all my love,
Your daughter,

Shima

 
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