Thursday, June 19, 2008

Remembering Karen ~ 1858 - 2006

I woke up this morning thinking about my friend Karen; I could not remember the date of her death, so came to Blogspot and checked my post's index, because I felt like republishing it.

So, Karen, this is for you my friend; you are in my thoughts today.







APRIL 8TH, 2006
My Lone Memorial to Karen (1958 – 2006)

I shed a tear or two for my dear lost lost friend, who died on April 2nd . Cause of death “lifestyle choices”. Karen, sweet, highly intelligent, talented, energetic, funny and charming, witty and wild, strong but weak, determined but scattered….what was the demon that led her to her self-distruction…I may never know…she never could tell me…i'm having trouble crying because her life was so miserable...but...
Karen, I could not love you enough to save you from yourself.

When I first met you it felt like you were a long lost sister, or a child I had never had, the connection was instant and strong. We bonded in the very first second of our meeting. I imagined that you were my twin, separated from me at birth (oh my god, my body shudders at the memory, and I wonder if you are part of my soul group , and if I am going to die in a few days, or weeks, months, as members of the same soul groups do);…and I weep…oh god oh god oh god…I can feel your spirit hovering over me…and I understand the strange dreams of the past few days…and my unwillingness to record them…

Karen, You compelled me to do crazy things , self- distructive things…I was helpless - mesmorized by the spell that you cast over me …I still cannot fathom it…and so we had to part…while I could not be with you in physical time, I always carried you in my heart!

“It’s just three miles to the river that would carry me away… two miles to the dusty street that I saw you on today , four miles to my lonely room where I will hide my face, and half a mile to the downtown bar that I ran from in disgrace…. Lord, how long am I going to keep on running? 7 hours 7 days or 7 years?...All I know is, since you’ve been gone I’ve been drowing, drowning, feel like I’m drowning in a river of tears.

…Three more days ‘till I leave this town and disappear without a trace. A year from now maybe settle down where no one knows my face, I wish that I could hold you one more time to ease the pain but my time’s run out and I”ve got to go, got to run away again.

…Still I catch myself thinking one day I’ll find my way back here and you’ll save me from drowning, drowning in a river of tears. Oh how long must it go on?...”
– as i was typing, Eric Clapton’s Drowning in a River of Tears started playing, and NOW the enormity of all this strikes me, and my body is wracked with grief...i cry and cry and cry...until i am worn out, my head is sore and my eyes are red and puffy...ugh! I DO miss you, Karen, my friend, but I could not save you….and no words can express how much pain that gives me.

“…hidden in secret heart are soul-deep scars
That cry out for heaven’s stars.”
(from a poem written for me in 1974

5 comments:

Jean-Luc Picard said...

A fine memorial.

Andrew McAllister said...

That is a nice tribute to a missed friend. So sad to see "lifestyle choices" as cause of death.

Thought you might like to know that I've started posting Dismaying Stories again. Drop by if you get a chance.

dragonflyfilly said...

hey there mon Kapitano;
it has been one HECTIC week...i feel like I have just come down from Mt. Everest... will elaborate, maybe in a "post" next week when I have recovered.

HEY ANDREW!
quelle (???) surprise! - so nice to see you back; i sure will drop by your Blog soon, as i certainly have missed you there.

cheers for now,
pj

alan said...

To be remembered so vividly by someone so wonderful is quite a tribute; she was as lucky as you!

alan

dragonflyfilly said...

cheers alan, cheers all...i have been struggling a bit, hence, no visiting blog, and no posting...feeling a bit better, although i have to go for a brain scan tomorrow, also physio for some work on my spine, so i hope i will be feeling much better soon.

Summer has not been as warm as expected, for which i am thankful, not liking the heat so much.

check out the new Post,

luv etc.
pj