Not Done

On the death of a young woman, someone’s daughter, sister, and friend of many – and subsequent evidence suggesting that her death was not accidental

 

 

How to respond?

 

Overwhelming

Traumatic

 

Loss

 

How do I respond?

How do you?

 

When a life

Not just any life

But this Particular Life

Dear

And so fought for

And won

Again

Is gone

 

Done

Unexpected

Not done

 

What do I do?

She asks

What can one do?

When there is

Nothing

To be done

Nothing

To stop it

To change it

To make it not

Have happened

 

It should not have

Happened

There is no reason

Nothing to make

Sense

Of this –

Screaming

Flat

Unbelieving

Hole

Inside

 

Gone

 

No