A 16-year-old boy died suddenly a few days ago.  He was the brother of my daughter’s friend, a great kid, a rising star, and his death was innocent, of natural causes. You may have seen it on the TV news…

The loss and pain are always greater when a young person dies.  There is more confusion and anger about why and how it happened; grief is deepened by contemplation of a life interrupted too soon.  It is not only a loss of precious life, but a life not yet lived completely, now without an opportunity to do so.

The boy had many friends, all of them grieving now. One close friend, wrote and published a short rap song about him, which you can listen to online by clicking the link below.  It’s very good, powerful, and moving – you should listen to it…

https://soundcloud.com/nicky-fal/rip-gurg

– the Haikook – 

15 Nov This entry was published on 2014/11/15 at 5:31 pm. It’s filed under Children, Family, Feelings, Haiku, Life+Wisdom, Spiritual and tagged Andrew Gurgitano, death, grief, Haiku, haikugrams, haikumages, loss, poem, poetry, RIPGurg, sad, sudden, too soon, young, youth. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.