Thursday, January 16, 2014

Dead Man's Road

We hear a lot of stories in life that make us think about many things... In what we have done and in what we would like to do...


My friend ended up staying in the small town that we arrived, I resolved to come back, lucky me there was a train line passing in the town, that was a beautiful place, apparently well organized, with many stores. There wasn't nothing more in the abandoned bottle of whiskey, I bought another one in a close bar and went walking towards the train station.

Arriving at the station I sat on a bench in front of the train line and opened up the bottle, I was watching the trees ahead. I hadn't noticed that there was a person beside me, an old man holding a photo of a couple and two kids. He fixed his half clenched eyes on me, he had gray and neatly combed hairs, his clothes were well starched and his features seemed to tell long stories.

“My wife and kids...” he told me with a little smile and low voice, but firmly, “I don't see them in a long time....” continued, changing his look to the trees, “I've lost them in the time I participated in the war...” The old man was silent, I wondered how his life would have been for some reason I don't know to explain, in his neck there still was a necklace with his name, I resolved to ask which battle he had participated “I don't remember” he said, “It was a long time ago, the things weren't easy, I was forced to leave my city and my family and participate in that massacre, when I got back I had lost them... ”


The train arrived, but my curiosity still existed... On the way to the train the man confessed to me “I killed them...”.

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