Death.
Death is not a subject I am able to cope with very well still.
Although I did not personally know Robin Williams, he touched my life so often. His early death is tragic and a huge loss that will forever be felt.
Departed comrade! Thou, redeemed from pain
Shall sleep the sleep that kings desire in vain:
Not thine the sense of loss
But lo, for us the void
That never shall be filled again.
Not thine but ours the grief.
All pain is fled from thee.
And we are weeping in thy stead;
Tears for the mourners who are left behind
Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.Lucretius, Roman epic poet and philosopher (ca 94 – 55BC)
Hold those you love because none of us know when the end will be for us or them.
Goodbye Robin Williams.
I will miss you.
yes, you will be missed, Robin Williams – very much…
that beautiful poem by Lucretius perfectly expresses my feelings at such a loss… thank you for sharing it
Thanks. {{{hugsss}}}
the poem by Lucretius reminded me of one by the 19th century English poet A. E. Housman that I read in high school English… While not as much on point as the one by Lucretius, it’s still worth reading at such a time…
To An Athlete Dying Young
THE time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.
Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:
Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.
So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.
And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl’s.
Thank you for sharing. I love poetry. 🙂
according to CBS News this morning, Robin Williams was an inveterate tweeter… in answer to his final tweet, birthday wishes for his only daughter, she tweeted this moving quote from The Little Prince:
“You – you alone will have the stars as no one else has them…In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night…You – only you – will have stars that can laugh.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I went to his Twitter page too and wanted to see what his last tweet posted. It was so sad to read the thread and know that he is gone. 🙁
A fitting tribute, Sherry Riter. Thank you for the blog post.
Thank you Robert. 🙂
Beautiful tribute to a remarkable man. He touched my life also.
{{{hugsss}}} Thanks.