Mourning

GUIA’S P.O.V

“Guia, your brother is gone.” Mother Aurelia said seriously, that made me stunned, my brain tried to digest what Mother Aurelia said -- Kuya Kali can’t die because he once died, Deus, Dea, and Supreme Beings, I beg you, please do not allow this.

“M-Mother, t-tell me that’s not true! Mother, tell me! N-No, Kuya Kali can’t die again! That’s too unfair, so unfair!” I shouted at Mother Aurelia, and then I cried and cried, as if there was a needle stuck in my heart that was repeatedly piercing it, I also felt dizzy and my eyes were dimming because of the tears coming out of it.

“Mom, can I do what they call CPR? It might work!” I suggested while crying to Mother Aurelia. This is the only way I think of it, I’m so desperate, I don’t want to lose a loved one especially one of my family.

[CPR stand for cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and