Back....

I opened my eyes and saw a nebulous sky which hid all that was beyond it.I looked to my left and saw my wife of twenty years who had grown weary with the burden of having to live with a barren womb.I saw those hazel colored eyes and remembered the beauty that she had radiated when I had met her for the first time.Those exquisitely sculpted lips that tasted as sweet as honey when I had parted them on our nuptial night.
My mind raced back twenty years when we had first made love on a private beachfront and heard the gasps of delight that she made when I entered her for the first time.I had dreamt of a son and a daughter,I had dreamt of a wife who would walk hand in hand with me....I had dreamt....
Fifteen years back I had approached a harlot and asked her to carry a child for me.Ofcourse I would adopt the child without my wife having to know whose baby it was.It was picture perfect.After a night of lust and money I was confident that I would have a son whom I could call my own.He would have my blood and ....
But nothing happened.Things were going awry.Finally we decided to go in for those damning tests and get to the root of the problem.A few weeks later the report came...I looked at it and then at her with a cold stare...she lowered her eyes and understood that she had become a social outcast.
We continued to make love..but it was no more than two dogs satisfying their carnal urges.I became violent while she would lie motionless, not even whimpering as I scratched her and bit her..
It would all end today.As a looked at my body lying on that stack of wood and listened to the invocations to the Netherworld before the fire would swallow all in it wake I wish I had told her what was written in that report...