The human mind can perceive sight at a rate of 30 - 200 frames per second. That's amazing, when you think that each second you've seen something, your mind has captured that moment at least 30 times.
For a person, your mind has stored up all these pictures of the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years that you have spent seeing them.
My images of Helena aren't as many as a lot of people's. That doesn't mean she wasn't important to me, but there was a bit of an age gap; she always stood around in the kitchen with the women and i was always playing with the other kids in some other room, but there was family time. I saw her face, we talked, we shared love. I loved my aunt quite a bit. She never let me down once. And in all the images my mind has stored up, she's got a big old smile on her face. It's not a fake smile for a myspace or facebook, to make someone's picture look better. No, it's in her eyes. You can see love there.
The love that can make someone smile with that intensity, it is powerful.
That is the love that can shake this world.
That is the love they make stories about.
All poems and songs and everything great was written for the love in my aunt's smile.
Cancer took my aunt's life, but the smile she shared so willingly, so hopefully, so lovingly... it will live on.
I hope it will live on in me.
I know it will live on in my uncle and my cousins.
I want it to spread like a fire into the hearts of random passersby and turn their worlds inside out.
And when I get to heaven, my aunt will be there with that smile I adore so much. There will be no more tears, nor sorrow, for the old things have passed away, and all that is will be love.
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