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As they stood there, all the beauty around them was the same...except this time everything in life was not before them. Their careers, their marriage, their children...that was now all behind them. This time, they were quiet and did not celebrate. Life was too short. They felt so happy last time with all life to experience in front of them. But now their lives were practically over...over in a flash. All that happiness they felt last time for what was to come had already come and gone. That happiness felt last time now turned to sadness. For nearly all life was now behind them. And their love for each other would in a few short years be lost to death.
They stood on the rock and looked at each other. They said nothing. They held each other. Then they walked over to where they had celebrated and remembered their carefree happiness. Without saying a word, she pulled off her ring and gently placed it in his hand. They both looked at it, sparkling in the sunset as it did fifty years ago. He looked into her eyes and slid it on her finger again. Then he held her hand and told her he loved her more than the day he first put that ring on her finger. His voice shook as he told her. He gasped and looked up for a moment and saw the moon between the pines as he did fifty years ago.
The more they remembered, the more they felt sadness. They hugged, and then they held each other for a long time. They knew these moments were precious, for they would not have each other much longer. They watched the sunset and remembered. Darkness fell over the lake.
A few years later, the man came back alone one evening. His wife had died. For the first time, he stood alone on the rock. He was overcome by feelings. Just yesterday, it seemed, his wife was here with him as they looked into each other's eyes and held each other in reassurance. He could see her still standing there in front of him. He reached out to touch her hair. She was not there. He began to weep and to remember. He remembered when he put his hands on her shoulders and asked her to marry him. He remembered her eyes and her expression. He remembered how she tilted her head slightly as her eyes filled with tears. ...Oh, he needed her now. He felt so empty as the water cradled the rock.
He stepped off the rock and onto the land. He suddenly looked behind him, as if to find his wife there with him after all. If only he could hold her one more time! The pain while remembering the last time here, when he held her hand and told her he loved her, now became unbearable. To momentarily escape the pain, his thoughts jumped back to the time they once celebrated life still before them, over fifty years ago. It seemed like just a short time ago -- they laughed and cried and celebrated. He walked over to where they had celebrated. He turned slowly in circles as he remembered lifting her and turning her in circles in their celebration. As he turned, he saw the sunset; he saw the moon between the pines. He stopped turning. He remembered. He sat on the ground where they once sat as he first slid the ring on her finger. Suddenly the sweet celebration became crushed with the knowledge that she was gone, forever. He looked at the sunset. He remembered the last time when they watched this sunset together. ...She would never see another sunset. Darkness fell over the lake.
He did not leave this time. He sat there in the dark. He remembered every moment of when they shared this cove one last time together. He remembered how precious those moments were. He kept on remembering. He remembered first his most recent memories with his wife; then his memories traveled back over the years. He relived in his mind every special moment with her throughout all the years. Several hours later, physically paralyzed by his thoughts, he had remembered all the special moments back to the moment he stood up from the very spot where he now sat, lifted her and turned her in circles as they celebrated a whole life still to come together...their wonderful lives ahead, which he just spent the last several hours remembering, moment by moment. Those special moments that he remembered tonight were what they were celebrating for over fifty years ago...for a wonderful lifetime in anticipation. Suddenly he began to cry loudly. "It's all over!" he yelled into the darkness.
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