Awi’s blog from da soul
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007In life, we go through pages and chapters. And on the last weekend, marked a closed chapter in my life and in many others who shared it collectively.
Though it has been a little over two months now, it is still hard to say goodbye. But we have to ‘cos the world ain’t stopping for no one. But for that brief moment, we stopped it for you.
Truth be told, it was hard to do it. I couldn’t bring myself to actually sit through hours of sifting through your pictures and videos. Laying it out in pages and pages that doesn’t seem to end. Laying it out on tracks; seeing you dance, jumped, protested; hearing you shout, laughed, talked… I thought that by delaying it as late as possible, I wouldn’t have to deal with the emotions amidst the looming deadlines. But I was wrong…
And though I had played it in my mind thousands of time, nothing could actually prepare me for the ride that I was taken on when we were on stage. I choked. Whose brilliant idea was it to do a tribute, huh? ~bleah… As much as it was for you, it was more so for us. For us who are left behind to find our way to reach a closure amongst ourselves. To come to terms with the grief and to let the floodgates flow one last time. And the ironic thing, is that you gave us the chance to do what otherwise would never have happened. A motley crew coming together for a single purpose. And in your passing too, many more pacts have been made; many more differences reconciled. I made mine, where our code is "the sky is purple"… And so, in song and dance we celebrated you.