A Twin Brother's Love
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A Twin Brother’s Love
By:
DJ Bishop
Last night I had a dream ... not a dream really but a nightmare. It caused my eyes to fill with tears, my body to tremble, and my heart to ache in a way it had never ached before. I dreamed that for the first time in my life I had to start a day without you. I quickly got to my feet and stumbled through the dark, lonely house calling your name but no matter how loud I called I got no reply.
Frantically I looked in every room knowing I needed to find you, but that was not to be. I opened the door and stepped outside into a world of total darkness, a place that without you in it had no light and no sound.
I moved slowly along the dark street of life not knowing what lay ahead. Suddenly I came upon a lonely, darkened crossroad where I knew I’d have to choose and you were not there to help guide me in my decision.
No where were there any signs to direct me ... and I knew I didn’t want to go back because you would not be there. I stood studying the crossroad for a good long while ... I had to choose and I had to choose the right way, the direction that would lead to you.
I mopped at the tears and cold sweat running down my face with a shaky hand and took a deep, ragged breath and as I let it out I stepped onto the road leading right but had not taken more than a dozen steps or so when I suddenly stopped and looked back over my shoulder along the road leading left.
It was then I wished I could pick up the phone and call for advice but I knew you would not answer. In desperation I looked again along the dark road to my right to see not the slightest glimmer of light, and then I looked to my left to find it was the same.
Suddenly I noticed a rode that ran straight ahead. It seemed much narrower and for some odd reason somewhat darker than the other two but it had something about it that drew my attention. After careful consideration I decided the road straight ahead was the one I would travel, it would be off in that direction that I would find you.
Carefully I started along the long, dark corridor of life alone for the first time and the further I walked the darker it got. Suddenly up a head I saw light ... a distant yellow blinking light
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mmediately I started to run but when I got near I saw it was attached to a sign that read, Beware of pot holes in the rode you travel. I did not understand but seeing another blinking light I moved on to find it too was attached to a sign and it read, Travel at your own risk. Then yet another blinking light appeared but it was much further away, it was brighter and it flashed red. When I got to where I could make out the words it said, Stop: anyone going beyond this point will have to travel alone. I knew I didn’t want to do that so I turned back in the direction from which I had come only to find it had changed.
The blinking lights were no longer there. The darkness suddenly filled with the sound of beautiful music, and the voices of a thousand angels singing, before me stood a magnificent, towering church, its steeple reaching high into the heavens. I thought how strange I’d not seen that church on my way here. The steps leading up to the door stood lined with people dressed in their Sunday-best. I let my eyes slowly scan the crowd and realized that many of the faces I knew. Some were family members and others were longtime friends. Then, the reason for such a gathering hit me. I knew then that it was there I would find you. My heart almost exploded within my chest and I dropped sobbing to my knees. That’s when I woke up.
The good part is, it was just a dream, and when I opened my eyes I knew you were still there. But the day will come my brother that it won’t be a dream. One of us will have to start our first day on this earth without the other. If it’s a hundred years from now it will still be way too soon for me and it will be the darkness day in my life.
Sometime during the nine months you and I rolled around together in mama’s belly I fell in love with that little o’ nappy-headed thing just across the way, that for no reason what so ever kept kicking and hitting me and it has been a love that has only grown deeper over the years. From day one whether you know it or not, you have been my rock, my leaning-post, my one and only true friend, and at times my only reason for living.
That’s why I don’t find it surprising at all, that I’d rather sit down with you over a cold bologna sandwich, than to be with anyone else eating the finest food in the world. Yes I love you brother and I would hate to think of a single day of my life without you in it. That would be a dark and lonely day, a day with no light and no sound.