The longest walk you'll ever take is the walk away from the grave of someone you love. If you have never done that, you can't imagine how difficult it is.

• To walk away and feel as if the world has come to an end.
• To walk away and think about what used to be and what might have been.
• To walk away and realize, "I'll never be the same again."
• To play over and over in your mind the good times, the laughter, the crazy stories.
• To reach out and touch a face and find it gone forever.
• To cry until you can't cry anymore.
• To watch them bury your dreams and hopes and all that was good about life.
• To know it is over, done, finished, the end, and there is nothing you can do about it.
• To walk away to friends who cannot understand and to a world that does hardly cares.

It is the longest walk and the saddest day. Every step takes you away from the tombstone of a broken dream.