To the Ones I Didn't Know - A Eulogy

By Alethia Rose Braganza

Sit back and witness

All that you have to say for your self

The struggles, the pain… the cure

When tomorrow comes and you find yourself drowning

I’ll think of you

The struggles and the pain and that cure

That you have not found yet

I’ll think of you

And for all that happens

Whether near or far

I’ll think of you

I’ll think of your struggles,

Of your pain

And how you were the cure

Our cure

We look the other way

Swimming away, swimming far

Against the tide

Against our Pride

Into the ocean, into the depths of the ocean

But you are the cure

We are

Ours and Mine

The ocean deep but enthralling

As in that ocean of despair lies your aid

We suffer, and through that suffering we open a gate

As only through suffering can we suffer less

And when it ends, we’ve shared a common place

To the ones I don’t know,

You’re the ones I now

I now will,

Will never know at all

But when it ends that common place, we share a common place

You will be the ones I knowingly will never know.

By Alethia Rose Braganza