A Kiss Of Farewell

Gretel was so listless as she vomited, discharged blood on her way to the doctor. Her doctor said:

“There’s almost no hope she would recover.”

Then she wept silently, watching the doctor giving, providing the last, best possible treatment.

Gretel still breathed back home.

Si Upik didn’t cry anymore. She pressed a silent kiss so long on Gretel’s face as though to say farewell, as    though she wished to retrieve her back to life.              

And I thought of Princess Diana who was so loved by the whole world. But there’s no one so close, so loved as Gretel - just a former unwanted doggy - by si Upik.

Mother Teresa

She would still be as great, were she not winning the Nobel Prize. 

Were there no suffering any more in the world she would even be happier than winning the Nobel Prize.