"Dominique"
Time passed through prisms of color, gray, black, soft blue, merging, hammering me with a reality I could not, would not accept. Tears flowed from an unknown reservoir to mix with the blood of Dominique. I rocked her as might a parent with a child and was utterly absorbed by the blackness of my instant grief. I found my love only to have the scourge of fate take her from me. Why, God? Why? In so short a time you take from me what my heart has sought all my life.
