10/27/2025
A biker started showing up at my wife’s grave every Saturday at two in the afternoon. For six months, I sat in my car and watched him. Same time, same spot. He’d park his Harley, walk over to Sarah’s headstone, and sit cross-legged beside it for exactly an hour.
He never brought flowers, never spoke, at least not that I could see. Just bowed his head and stayed there in silence.
At first, I thought he’d made a mistake. Maybe he had the wrong grave. The cemetery’s big, easy to get lost in. But then he came back the next week. And again. And again.
Eventually, it started to bother me. Who was this guy? How did he know my wife? Why did he come every week when some of her own family hadn’t visited in months?
Sarah’s been gone fourteen months now. Breast cancer. She was forty-three. We were married twenty years. We had two kids. A simple, good life.
There was nothing in her world that would explain a biker. She was a pediatric nurse, volunteered at church, drove a minivan. Her wild side was an extra shot of espresso in her latte.
But this man mourned her like he’d lost his whole world. I could see it in his shoulders, the way they shook sometimes. The way he’d rest his hand against her name before leaving.
After three months, I couldn’t take it anymore. I got out of my car and walked toward him. He heard me but didn’t turn. Just kept his hand on her grave.
“Excuse me,” I said, trying to keep my voice steady. “I’m Sarah’s husband. Can you tell me who you are?”
He stayed quiet for a long time. Then stood slowly and said, “Your wife was my…”...⬇️