Thank you

– something to write –

Been thinking about this gentleman all morning since news broke. Rest in peace, Alan Rickman, and thank you once more for sharing your talents with us.

– something to write –

i want to write words that will help me make sense of how i feel
i need to express the meaningful emotions that linger within me
i wish to fill that lull between knowing reality with the unknown
if only to make that gap less real and filled with the imaginary
the improbable that can never be with the irony of unspoken words
maybe wishful thinking sprinkled with the stardust of your talent
and my only reprieve is knowing that you no longer silently suffer
but how fortuitous that you have left us bodies of your great work
adding the right colours to the monotony of black on white papers
stories and characters that illuminate, blinded by your subtlety,
a bittersweet thing to not know you beyond what you’ve revealed
and the truth of you and who you mean to them, myself, included
i cannot grieve for you properly when there is so much of you left
for us to celebrate, clinking the proverbial glass of champagne
across the borders that divide us and transcending the boundaries
with the spirit you shared; you’ve touched us all without knowing
and my writing cannot do any justice for what we have lost but
it gives us more reason for something to write, stories to tell,
and though we will not hear them in your unmistakeable baritone,
we can still tell them for the sake of our survivability

@kwirb