Creative Nonfiction: The invisible thread/ El hilo invisible (ENG/ ESP)

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The invisible thread

I know that the story is in the silence they sometimes maintained while sitting in the garden, every afternoon, the two of them together, watching the time go by: mom's hand caressed his neck, dad's hand remained still on her leg. I knew that the story of the two of them was so long, that words were no longer needed to speak to each other.

When my mom was 13, she met my dad who was 15. My dad had gone with his uncle to work on my mom's stepfather's ranch. My mom says that when she saw my dad, her heart started beating so hard that she thought she was going to die and that my dad looked so familiar, as if she had seen him in a dream or in another life. The same thing happened to my father, but because he was afraid of being fired from his job, he always kept his distance, even though my mother was the one who brought the coffee to the workers at the hacienda.

But there was a party in the town square and at a time when there were no cell phones, people had to talk in person and that was what my dad did: in the middle of the hustle and bustle, in the middle of the colorful backdrops, he approached my mom, asked her to dance and sang in her ear. They danced all night and the next morning, my dad was out of work and my grandmother warned my mom:

"Don't even think of seeing that poor black man again, because I'll cut your hair!" -my grandmother warned him, furious because she despised my father, since he was a simple laborer. But since love is a broken traffic light, my parents looked for a way to meet secretly.


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One day, my parents decided to elope, but my grandmother found out and cut off my mother's long hair and sent my mother to another city so that my father could no longer see her and she would forget about him. My mother says that before they parted, she and my father swore to each other that they would love forever, and in the distance, she thought of that oath every day and prayed that he would not forget her words.

Four years passed and my mother returned to her town and immediately asked about my father and was told that he had moved to another city, Cumaná, to work, and that he already had a new girlfriend. My mother tells us that rather than extinguishing the flame of her love, that news fanned her feelings and she took her suitcase and made the trip to this city to look for him.


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My parents never told me what they said to each other, that's why I want to believe that, magnetized by emotions, my parents' bodies came together, that when my mom rested her head on my father's shoulder, her head fit perfectly in that space between neck and shoulder; that when she heard his heart beating wildly, she didn't know if she would die, but she felt happy; so much so that she felt inside her a big party, a desire to rest as if in those 4 years they were separated, mom had run a lot and had finally found the peace she wanted so much: In short, I would like to think that when mom and dad met, the angels smiled because at last, like pieces of a great puzzle, destiny had won.

That is why, after my father's death, when I see my mother alone, sitting in the garden, every afternoon, I know she is not alone: next to her is him, in silence, with his hand still on her leg, singing songs in her ear like the first time and waiting for a new life, where they will meet again.

The images are from my personal gallery and the text was translated with Deepl

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Thank you for reading and commenting. Until a future reading, friends


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El hilo invisible
Yo sé que la historia está en el silencio que mantenían a veces mientras estaban sentados en el jardín, todas las tardes, los dos juntos, viendo pasar el tiempo: la mano de mamá acariciaba el cuello de él, la mano de papá se mantenía quieta sobre la pierna de ella. Yo sabía que la historia de ellos dos era tan larga, que ya no hacían falta palabras para hablarse.
Cuando mi mamá tenía 13 años, conoció a mi papá que tenía 15 años. Mi papá había ido con un tío de él a trabajar en la hacienda del padrastro de mi mamá. Mi mamá dice que cuando vio a mi papá, el corazón comenzó a latirle tan fuerte que creyó que iba a morir y que mi padre se le hacía tan conocido, como si lo hubiese visto en sueños o en otra vida. A papá le ocurrió lo mismo, solo que como tenía miedo que lo botaran del trabajo, mantuvo la distancia siempre, a pesar de que mamá era la que llevaba el café a los trabajadores de la hacienda.
Pero hubo una fiesta en la plaza del pueblo y en una época en la que no existía celulares, la gente tenía que conversar personalmente y eso fue lo que hizo mi papá: en mitad de la algarabía, de las bambalinas de colores, se acercó a mi mamá, la sacó a bailar y le cantó al oído. Bailaron toda la noche y a la mañana siguiente, mi papá no tenía trabajo y mi abuela le advirtió a mi mamá:
_¡No se te ocurra volver a ver a ese pobre negro, porque te corto el cabello! –le advirtió mi abuela enfurecida porque despreciaba a mi padre, ya que él era un simple peón. Pero como el amor es un semáforo descompuesto, mis padres buscaron la manera de encontrarse a escondidas.
Un día, mis padres decidieron fugarse, pero mi abuela se enteró y le cortó la larga cabellera de mi madre y mandó a mi mamá para otra ciudad para que papá ya no pudiera verla y ella se olvidara de él. Cuenta mi mamá que antes de separase, papá y ella se juraron amor eterno, y en la distancia, ella pensaba todos los días en ese juramento y rogaba que él no se olvidara de sus palabras.
Pasaron 4 años y mi madre regresó a su pueblo e inmediatamente preguntó por mi papá y le dijeron que se había mudado a otra ciudad, Cumaná, a trabajar, y que ya tenía una nueva novia. Cuenta mi madre que más que apagar la llama de su amor, aquella noticia avivó su sentimiento y tomó su maleta, e hizo el viaje a esta ciudad para buscarlo.
Mis padres nunca contaron qué se dijeron, por eso yo quiero creer que imantados por las emociones, los cuerpos de mis padres se unieron, que cuando mi mamá apoyó su cabeza en el hombro de mi padre, su cabeza encajó perfectamente en aquel espacio entre cuello y hombro; que cuando escuchó el latir desbocado de su corazón, no supo si moriría, pero se sintió feliz; tanto así que sintió dentro de ella una gran fiesta, unas ganas de descansar como si en aquellos 4 años que estuvieron separados, mamá hubiese corrido mucho y por fin había encontrado la paz que tanto quería: en fin, quiero pensar que cuando mamá y papá se encontraron, los ángeles sonrieron porque al fin, como piezas de un gran rompecabezas, el destino había ganado.
Por eso, después de la muerte de mi padre que veo sola a mi madre, sentada en el jardín, cada tarde, sé que no está sola: a su lado está él, en silencio, con la mano quieta en su pierna, cantándole canciones al oído como la primera vez y esperando una nueva vida, donde nuevamente, vuelvan a encontrarse.

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A very beautiful and moving story, perhaps this type of true love story is rarely found in our modern times, today everything is so superficial. In our parents' time, love was sincere and pure.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Excellent day.

Yes, I think I share your idea. In our time love is a transaction, a garment worn according to fashion. Thanks for your information and have a great weekend, my friend.