by Anonymous
“I recognize my brother as the deceased.”
Words I never thought I would write.
Words no one prepares you for…
Words no thing prepares you for.
It’s not supposed to be this way,
And it is this way. He’s gone.
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“I recognize my brother as the deceased.”
Mission mode. Official business.
Transactional. I am not prepared.
No one prepares you for this.
No thing prepares you for this.
He’s gone. And it is this way.
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“I recognize my brother as the deceased”
It’s not supposed to be this way.
No one can prepare you
No thing can prepare you.
I know it is this way, but
I never wanted to say,
“I recognize my brother as the deceased.”
This first appeared in The Havok Journal on March 1, 2019.
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