• “Help me, please somebody help me!” Elizabeth Yells but no one responds to her screams. “Why can’t they help me?” Elizabeth said to her self but an all too familiar voice responds to her. “They cannot hear nor see you so why do you still try this over and over again? They can not help you.” “They will see me and they will hear me, one day they will, I’ll make them. I will not die like this. I will not watch myself die like this!” Elizabeth screams at the man standing next to her; like Elizabeth he is near death as well. We are souls that helplessly watch as our bodies slowly fade and die. We wait and watch to see where we must go, will it be heaven or hell, as the old man whispers softly “it’s in God’s hands now.” He has told her these words more than 100 times now since she’s been at the hospital these last 6 weeks now. After Elizabeth’s car crash she went into a coma and soon found herself watching her unconscious body be cared for by her father. The old man goes silent that was by her side in mid statement. Elizabeth turns and faces him “What is it, what’s wrong?” she says in shock. “It is time for me to go now child.” The man says with a smile on his face. “No don’t leave me alone”! Elizabeth says softly and tries to reach out to take the gentle old man’s arm. He starts to fade, “I hope we meet again “, he whispers to her, then he is gone from her sight. “No! Why do you have to leave me all alone?” Elizabeth screams and wants to cry but no tears flow from her eyes. She moans as fear overtakes her, she feels so alone. “I thought we could go together and not be so alone. You said that you would stay with me till we left. You said you wouldn’t leave me.” Between the fear of being alone and the love she wants to express to her family Elizabeth feels an overwhelming power come over her. Then she hears her brother and dad gasp and another sound that she knows very well. She looks at her frail, pale body and is stunned, there are tears flowing from her eyes and her lips move with her own thoughts. “God give them my love.” She whispers and her weak lips mimic her prayer. Her dad and brother look in shock at each other, then back at her. “Elizabeth! Can you hear me, its daddy I’m hear baby! Can you hear me?!” He clasps her hand and strokes her face as if to wake a sleeping chilled. “Can I make them hear me? Can I live my life again?” She thinks in wonder to herself. She looks at the hands of her soul and sees that they are fading. “It’s happening daddy oh Lord, do I go to heaven or hell? God will you give me one more chance at life….? I love you.” She whispers as the rest of her soul fades. Elizabeth speaks the words hoping her father and brother hear them. As if these words were her last and the words would ease her loved ones. “I’ll be ok dad, I love you.” Her father with tear filled eyes leans over her and gives her a heart filled hug and then the heart monitor goes silent Elizabeth’s breath cuts off and her body goes limp. “No! Wait you can’t go!” her father whispers with tears starting to escape and fall to drench his shaking lips. Her brother rushes to his side and holds he’s father tight as they both start to sob and whale. Then without announcement and as if in a frantic search an old man rushes into the room dressed in a blue patents rob just like Elizabeth. “I had hoped that we could meet again and I did promise not to leave you child.” His words were like a faint whisper over her family’s cries but she heard them and in a whisper of her own Elizabeth reapplies. “You did promise me that didn’t you, old man.” With a gasp and then a smile the old man laughs and then says “It’s good to see you again girl”. The old man’s voice and startling laughter snaps her father out of his panic state and he looks up at the man and then at Elizabeth and see’s his daughter smiling at them.
    When Elizabeth’s father had heard her whispering earlier he had accidentally pulled the heart monitor cord off of her when he had hugged her. Tears of pain, fear, and hate slowly turn into tears of joy as they all laughed as Elizabeth tries to explain what she and the old man had gone through. She looks up out of her window and knew that God and his angels where smiling as they watched his children rejoice.