The Revenge of One Humiliated
abandoned me, the only one who stayed, always, whatever happens, whatever I do, whatever I say, whatever I choose."
Matha looks at me, she looks at me with her sixty-year-old eyes, that have seen wars, deaths, births, lives being made, unmade, remade, with her eyes that watched me arrive, fall, get back up, walk, run, fly, with her eyes that watched my children be born, grow, laugh, cry, live, with her eyes that watched Marcus arrive, settle in, wait, hope, love, with her eyes that have seen everything, understood everything, accepted everything, loved everything, and she takes my hand, she squeezes it in hers, she warms it, she holds it, and she tells me, in a voice she has never had befor