Nurse's letter

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Dear Maria,

How is life treating you? I hope you have been well and happy. I have missed you terribly and often wish you were here by my side, to counsel me through these terrible times. Oh how I wish things were the same as before. When you and I would take my little Juliet to the park, and she would play and play without a care in the world.

It is memories like that, which often stop me from leaving this forsaken place. And believe me when I tell you this Maria, I have come very close to leaving this place recently.

I feel my presence is not needed here anymore. I no longer feel at home. These Capulet’s do not appreciate me, after all I have done for them. Even my Juliet has betrayed me, when all I did was try and help her. Maria, you know I have only ever wanted the best for her. I raised her as if she was my own and she looked to me as if I was her mother. She told me things she would not have dared speak of to her mother. She confided everything in me Maria, and in return I always advised her to the best of my wisdom. Lord knows I would have done anything in my power to protect her.

Oh Maria!

So much has happened since you left. So many horrible, horrible things I have witnessed. I want to confide in you, only I do not know where to begin. All I know is that I will feel better if I let it all out. It will at least make my burden easier to bear. But under the circumstances I feel it would be terribly wrong to gossip.

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 So I will just tell you this.

My baby has died, Maria!

And now I am filled with the same sorrow and emptiness I felt fourteen years ago. Now I am mourning Juliet the same way I mourned for Susan, if not more. For even though Juliet did not enter the world from my womb, she was still my precious baby whom I loved and cared for. I mothered her for fourteen years and she grew to become a fine young women. But instead of being a blessing it lead to her downfall.

The poor girl was loved by two ...

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