Grandpaw

It's funny that as a child a few minutes would seem like hours ,mom would say we will go just as soon as i finish this cup of coffee .It would seem as though hours would go by before she would be done with that cup of coffee.But that was the impatience of a child ,as an adult time seems to fly by at an ever quickening pace.The memories of my youth seem like a bunch of small brightly lighted scenes from a chaotic movie,the haze of time swirls around the outer edge but the memories that are there stand out proudly wanting ,begging to be pulled up into the now .They long to be treasured. Grandpa scene one:Its warm maybe spring time ,i am in the sandy dirt on the ground under the Magnolia tree ,i am beside a wooden chair with a small gray headed man in it ,he is smiling at me while i play with a small truck.He hands me an empty inhaler bottle ,there he says now you put that in the back of the truck .Now your truck will not be empty ,I do as he says and this simple action seems to delight the little man to no end. SCENE two: I am in a rocking chair on the front porch of my Grandparents house sitting in the lap of the kind little old man .He is doting over me .I hug him he hugs back . Scene three: The sweet little old man is laying in his bedroom in a hospital bed . He has an oxygen mask on the emphysema is now racing to smother him out .I come in the room with my father ,we go to the side of the bed the kind old man smiles brilliantly me his face pale and tense just moments before is now full of as much life and animation as the oxygen mask and his failing lungs will give him .I climb on the hand rails and say something i wish i knew what words or sounds i used. But in that moment I know the love he holds for me and he knows the love a have for him. He passes from this life a few weeks after this memory .The kindness ,love,and charity he had for me i still carry in my heart .Even though he had many other grandchildren ,he bought my first swing set.He didn't buy any of the other grand kids one. Me and my grandpa shared a special bond ,i will treasure always . He passed from this life before i turned four. I still miss him .........