death
September 27, 2009
- It was the story of two deaths. One sister, mad, alone and despairing, stood, arms outstretched, motionless on the track. The rail, as rails must, sang under the weight of the train, and the sister, bereft of song, stopped singing forever. The other sister, later, curious, leaned too far over the railing of the trestle hoping to see where her sister had finished her song. In the morning, ...
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September 25, 2009
- I've already written in a poem about saying goodbye, so I am not sure this momentary pause in thought, matters in respect of the RedRoom weekly theme request. It counts for me, as this past week I lost a part of me. I lost the bedrock of my life in enforced exile. As the theme has been about saying goodbye; the emotional punctuation of a life ending is vast and consuming, as much as it is ...
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September 24, 2009
- Salman, my son, is no more. He went to a clinic in Orange County, California for a simple out-patient procedure on Tuesday, the 29th of August and suffered cardiac arrest during a routine, minor surgery. They kept him on life support for two days, only so that we could see him when we flew in from Pakistan. We buried him on Sunday, August 3rd.I have always believed that I could handle death. As ...
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September 24, 2009
- Why should I say goodbye? I won't; I just won't...If we have met, we will meet again, sometime, some place--even if after death...For only death has separated me from those to whom I couldn't say goodbye. My Mom quietly went in her sleep, thankfully. A boss and friend who had been my mentor died and I learned about it from his wife. Those that I have loved who died, I wait to see again.So why ...
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September 24, 2009
- Between loss and living Absences wrench, gut, tear, rake. What follows is an infused hollowing out of the senses: A crushing of the heart and a cold deadening of skin. The soul shrinks in its sudden deep freeze. One Plain-dressed, Sentimental walks Sorrow between gravestones marking memories in the shade of Daily conversations, easily forgotten ...
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September 23, 2009
- "Dead people seem to inspire you," he said to me. I'd not thought about it that way before, but he was right. Although I have spent the past ten years writing, writing, and writing some more, the two books I have to show for it are my tributes to dead people that I loved.Grief, sadness, anger, all push me somehow. I moved beyond my lethargy and procrastination into action. A book gives ...
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September 19, 2009
- 2:47pmWhat do you do when someone you love is getting ready to drop their body (what some people call death)? Not an easy thing, my friend, for you or the one you love. But let me share a little known secret. There is no such thing as death. Death means an ending. My friend Webster calls it a permanent cessation of all vital functions. If you believe that I have some property for you to buy. (A ...
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September 18, 2009
- It's hard to know exactly what went on those last few months in prison. My dad and stepmom only sometimes took phone calls from my brother, stating that it was too expensive and often he was not lucid anyway. As I mentioned before, his letters were hard to decipher and in one of his last letters, which for some reason my stepmom scanned and sent to me, he stated multiple times that he felt like ...
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September 18, 2009
- Apologies make forgiveness a whole lot easier. I mean real apologies. Not "I'm sorry if I hurt you" or "I'm sorry if you were offended" but more like "I did it. I was wrong. I'm sorry." No equivocating. So what happens when you need to forgive someone who either isn't sorry or won't admit it to you? When what needs to be forgiven is so big that it is unforgivable? ...
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September 18, 2009
- With the sharing of art, words, ideas, dreams, telepathic experiences, deep connections, and more, during this past week, the movie that comes to me is, “What Dreams May Come” based on the book of the same title by Richard Matheson. I love this movie and am moved each time I see it. It’s simply a visual masterpiece. I read the book some years after seeing the movie. Usually, there ...
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