Alone

"We finally decided to bring you back and tell you"

"Tell me? Tell me what!" I said getting more and more anxious with every moment.

"Well, what we have to tell you is that with all of these medical marvels, genetic engineering and the like; well I am afraid to tell you, but here is what happened. In the year 2070 the "Gay gene" was found. I am afraid the politicians of the time took advantage of this knowledge and, well used the discovery for their own gain"

"Used it for their own gain?" I yelled "what in the hell are you talking about!"

"Well Mister Goings, these radical people took this knowledge and used it to appease the constituents who did not agree with certain lifestyles."

"I, I still don’t understand" I stammered

"Well Mister Goings, what I am trying to tell you is, I am afraid that you are, well you are the last one of your kind on earth"

"What are you talking about" I yelled. "The last of my kind?"

"Mister Goings, I am sorry" he said looking down. "You are the last gay man on earth.

"WHAT!" I exclaimed with total disbelief. How can this be! It doesn’t make any sense. I ran out of the facility, running, running as fast as I could. I ran into town. The buildings are all clean, the air is so fresh. They are all different though. Nothing is as I remembered it.

I walked into my old neighborhood. Gone were the familiar places. The bars where I once talked and drank with my friends were gone, all gone. Everywhere that I went, all of the places that I once knew had vanished.

Then, suddenly my friend’s voices echoed through my mind. Reaching back to me from all of those years ago. "Try to be happy" they said. "Just find someone to love and live your life" Those words seem so wise now.

Feeling defeated I walked back to the facility. I walked back into my room and I then sank down into my chair. Shocked, dazed and numb and thought "I have never been so………. alone."