Exactly thirty years ago, this morning, at 10.30am, on Wednesday 5th May 1993, our father Willie Burns, was suddenly taken away. Leaving us stunned and shaken. It was a bright,cloudless spring morning and what should have been a routine mid-week working day will forever be remembered as the moment our world came crashing down.
He was only sixty and a half, very active and in the middle a repair job in his workshop... when he collapsed without warning, suffering a massive heart attack. He died within the hour in the Western Isles Hospital. We still grieve and miss him so... He still had much to give. It will always hurt and I will always find it virtually impossible to think of thirty years without him or imagining him having grown old.
Time, did as it always does, left our loved one back in the moment when he past. Time, it does not soften, it does not heal, it merely takes us further away from that terrible moment of loss.
This a time to remember a very special person and reflect. He was a positive man and would prefer to be remembered in a happy positive and constructive way. So as every year I steal a few silent minutes on my own... and then get on with the chores of the day.
In quiet reflection of William Burns, Marine Engineer, 3rd November 1932 - 5th May 1993.
KB
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