A Sad Return

There are many sad tales of trains taking people away, either to fight a war or just to runaway. As the train pulled into the station yesterday there disembarked a passenger who had been for a long time on far distant shores. Coming home to see his family after years of being away. He ran along to his door, tried to inser his key into the lock, but the key no longer fit. He knocked on the door. Strange faces answered it of people he did not know. He asked about his wife and son who used to live there not all that long ago. The couple looked at each other and offered him in for a cup of tea. When he was comfortable, they broke the sad news to him. His wife and son were no longer living because she could not live without him she took her own life and their son as well. He would find their graves in the cemetery at the bottom of the hill. As he places some flowers on their graves, he said a little prayer for God to look after them until he too would meet them at heaven’s door.