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A Haunting Image...and a Promise
This was inspired by listening to the haunting song, "All Souls' Eve" by Loreena McKinnett.
The Promise
A cold October night, the All Souls' Eve
I stand my watch, and think, and grieve
For those whom I shall never see again
After all these years, so much, much pain.
Soon we shall be at the Place
In spite of myself, I feel my heart race
Once again, I hear those awful screams
Those cries of terror and crushed dreams
It's been well over six and a half years
I've faced Death enough to have no fears
Death they say is an illusion
Nothing but a human delusion
Then why do I feel this razor knife?
If we but go from life to life?
If on and on we go, with no end,
I haven't really lost my friends.
It is because I do not really know
After death, where do we go?
What this now that I hear?
Voices, and voices, yet I do not fear.
At one of them, my heart is still.
I know that voice-- Yes, tis Will.
Do not grieve for me, do not feel pain.
I promise you Lights, you'll see me again.
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"What I remember about that night- what I will remember as long as I live- is the people crying out to each other as the stern began to plunge down. I heard people crying, 'I love you.'"
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Re: A Haunting Image...and a Promise
This is, of course, dedicated to my dear friend, Will. 
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Re: A Haunting Image...and a Promise
*reaches over and snatches Lights handkercheif*
That's lovely, very lovely... and sad.
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Ahhh, dear lady, so sorry to have made you cry...he was a good man and he died far, far, too young. When you said in "Requiem for a Dream" that part of me died that night, you are so, so right...
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Yes he was... did... and it was a suspicion that nagged at me when I wrote it. Almost didn't put that line it... had to in the end for it was so very true.
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It would have been so nice had I been able to serve under him as his Chief Officer before getting my own ship...but such was not to be. That's why I like the idea of your story...at long last we get to...even if only on the printed page.
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You will, mon ami... you will. I think the two of you would have made a most dashing and responsible command crew.
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Awwww, gee, shucks ma'am. Thank'ee kindly!
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Your welcome... no need to be embarrassed.
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