Over the years I’ve been here, I’ve always wondered if a thread containing “Speakings” would work in the forum. I wrote this a year ago wondering that, and have decided to go ahead and make a thread to post it. This isn’t a speaking quite in the terms we know, but consider it my take on it. I won’t use any names: they are not necessary; they are not needed. I would like this to be a thread where others who have lost or are hurting could post in their “speaking” fashion. Well Hatrack, I give this thread to you, do with it as you like.
I wrote this because no one should ever have to hear “he died instantly” as a consolation.
He at least as good a person as I. Considering all his merits, weighing all his flaws, he was likely a better person. All in all, he was a better person than most. Always a smile and nod, for friends and strangers alike, Never a rival, never an adversary. A creative mind, perhaps lacking on common sense, With a pension for the unusual, the outdated. Always the dutiful son, respectful of his parents, Regardless of the feelings returned. Always calling, always visiting parents, That two years after, have no marker for his resting place, And keep his room as a disused shrine for no one. One who had only kindness and compassion for his siblings, A sister that would gladly join him now, And a brother who knows not where to look. Your fellow students grieve even now, and all felt the same anguish of loss then, Unusual in a place where one hand shakes while the other stabs. The pain faded quickly for some, For others, it still persists. All because a moment of carelessness, A moment of humanity and fate took its toll. Good-bye my friend, I know you would have been, A better person than me.