Goose the Blog 2.0

Together alone
Above and beneath
We were as close
As anyone can be
Now you are gone
Far away from me
As is once will always be
Together alone

Anei ra maua
E piri tahi nei
E noha tahi nei
Ko maua anake

Kei runga a Rangi
Ko papa Kai raro
E mau tonu nei
Kia mau tonu ra*

Together alone
Shallow and deep
Holding our breath
Paying death no heed
I'm still your friend
When you are in need
As is once will always be
Earth and sky
Moon and sea

In the scheme of things, one more death is insignificant. But when I think of the families and friends left behind, I am saddened well beyond the merits of my tenuous connection to his life. Is it an unexplained empathy, a subtle half-understanding of the motivations that drive us to despair? I think, sometimes, we see in the deaths of others the losses we have faced, and will inevitably face, ourselves.

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* Here we are together
In a very close embrace
Being together
Just us alone

Rangi the sky-father is above
The earth mother is below
Our love for one another
Is everlasting