Fireflies on the wall

I have been trying to catch fireflies in the garden for a few days now, but there are not enough…

When I was a child, I used to catch them and put them in a container. I was trying to keep them alive, I let them go…

One day, my granny come to me and told me… come to show you something…

She took a firefly and smashed it against a wall, leaving a trail of light on the wall. To me it was very dramatic because the firefly had died, the wall glowing was not important to me.

I was a child, and I could not see the beauty of that light in the wall, I was just furious because she had destroyed the firefly.

Now that she is gone, sometimes I dream that we are in the house and she goes out to do something, but she does not come back… I go out to look for her, but there are only fireflies…. many fireflies… but she has gone.

When I wake up and I see the fireflies in the garden I would like to catch them all and make a silhouette of granny on the wall, but there are not enough…

I miss her.