Although I didn’t know any of the families affected and Connecticut is a “fer piece” from Oklahoma, the only words I find fitting, expressing how I feel are the words of the Hank Williams, Sr. song “I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry”. I suppose the reason I equate these words to the news is because I was in the car when I heard the news just as I was ready to get out. The first thing I heard when I stepped out was the sound of a whippoorwill, its call so far away and lonesome.
I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry
Hear the lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whining low
I’m so lonesome I could cry.
I’ve never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud
To hide its face and cry.
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
That means he’s lost the will to live
I’m so lonesome I could cry.
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I’m so lonesome I could cry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkztDzpTHKA
As a former teenaged mother and single parent who society says should have been just another statistic, I have only one comment:
Love your children (and all people in your life) with reckless abandon.
Lovely post. Thank you.
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I can’t think about this without crying. I’ve been debating doing a post, and I typed one up today. I posted it on my private journal instead. My heart just breaks for all of them </3
Me too Pami, me too.
Beautiful. I’ve heard the song so many times but reading the words made me realize how lovely it is and how appropriate to the moment. I can’t find the words to express how I feel either.
Lillian
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Beautiful words, especially the final line- let’s all of us strive for this!
Very nice poem. All we can do is say some prayers for all those affected.
Touching and appropriate. It doesn’t matter how far away from them we are, they still touched us deeply.