Old man on the back porch

Up in heaven a old women  looks down upon the world and sees far off in the woods of the back roads of the country. A house that a old man of the age of 65 year old sits smoking on the porch thinking. But a mile far into the woods a portal opens and our stranger steps forth out on to the grounds of the world of earth.  Night comes and the old man sits in his chair watching TV. Laughing at the shows but turns to look at the empty chair five feet from his. He looks sad and turns off the TV and leaves. He walks up stairs and passes a door to a room filled with memories of a happier time. In the woods the stranger stands looking to the direction of the house. He waves his hand and a stump grows for him to sit and listen to the worlds cries. Mother nature grants him a fire to fight off the cold of the night. As he sits, a time passes and screams are heard from the house. For the old man has awaken from his sleep crying out for his wife that was taken from him to soon. The stranger takes a deep breath and continues to sit by the fire. The old man gets up and goes to the room of his late wife and looks at the old pictures of the weddings and birth of children. but by the door stood the stranger watching him. Tears hit the books of his wood working  project he was setting out to do for his wife when he retire from being a metalworker at the factory. He walks to the bedroom and looks at the closet and sees her clothes. She loved to sit an read and she use to sew his clothes when he torn them. She was a women he want to grow old with and die beside. He walks out side and sees the flower garden has been die since the year she passed which was 15 years ago. He falls to his kneels crying and remembers  her suffering at the hospital. She held tight to his hand in the room. As he try to comfort her by saying she would be fine. That the doctors would help her get better. He could not stop crying. She just smile and saw how much she meant to him. She said in a soft voice it will be ok my love no wrongs just look at me. But he could not for he was scared to have that image in his mind of the last time he would see her. She closed her eyes and her grip loosen. He looks up and is paralyzed with fear. Behind him was the stranger but no one could see him not even the old man. The doctors and nurses come in and take her away from the old man. He says all she wanted was for him to look at her.  The stranger pats the old man on the back but he don't feel it and the stranger walks away. Back to the present, the old man sits on the back porch smoking his pipe and out in the woods still sits the stranger. The old man goes to the shed and gets rope and tires it to the tree and tires to hang his self. As he jumps off a log he hangs. But in the woods the stranger snaps his fingers and the rope breaks releasing the old man from death. He looks up  to see the rope is broke. He goes in to the house and garbs a gun and tires again to end it. But the stranger again snaps his fingers and the gun checks but nothing happens. Next the old man sets fire to the house of his and his wife. He sits in the chair while the fire builds around him. The stranger stands and sees it is time. He snaps his fingers one last time and the flames do not engulf the old man. The house just burns down around him. He lives but starts to curse god for not letting him die to see his wife he misses so much. He hears a noise come from the woods and he garbs his gun. Scared that the reaper is coming to take his soul for cursing gods name and take him to hell. He fires all five shots from his revolver but silences  comes and than boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. It is like the rest of the world when quiet and you could hear the bullets drop one by one to the ground with the metal sounding off. The stranger appears and walks over and looks at the old man. The old man shakes and asks is he the reaper or the devil. But the stranger just shakes his head no to both questions. The stranger rises his hand and  points to the old mans heart and than to the tree he try to hang from. The old man walks over to the tree and sees a metal tin in the dirt. He wipes it off and opens it to see a photo of him and his love as children growing up he flips it over and sees the date and his wife wrote my future husband. To my love this is my favorite picture. I want to be with you forever. The old man cries out but his heart starts to hurt and he turns to see the stranger near him. The stranger kneels in front of him and he points again to old mans heart and than to the heavens. The old man smiles for he can see his wife's  face. He can finally look at her like she wanted. The stranger reaches out to the old man and closes his eyes for him to rest forever, he than pats him on the shoulder. He than stands and walks over to the flowers and touches the ground around them and the flowers begin life a new. He looks up to the sky and sees a shooting star fly by. The old man was with his wife finally to be happy once more. The stranger takes his leave through the woods. Above the old mans body was a heart cut into the tree of his name and his wife's