REMEMBER me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you plann'd: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/engineering-ground-zero.html
ReplyDeletePlease view how hope and remembrance can be intertwined.
And so, all that is left
ReplyDeleteis what is remembered.
And so, at each meeting
even if by chance on this path together,
what we said,
what we did,
how we met
will be the remembrance.
Rather than how I died,
but how I lived.
And so, how I smiled at you that day.