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Crawling Through the Dirt
There Are Different Ways

Glenn W. Cooper

There are different ways of looking
at your death. There is the way of saying
at least you are now free of pain (though
we can’t be absolutely certain of that).
There is the way of saying you didn’t
deserve to die (though death may well
lead to something better than life).
There is the way of asking why this
happened to you and not to somebody
else (though somebody else’s
someone else would surely be
asking the same question).
There is the way of looking at your
daughter and understanding you have
not gone anywhere but into another body.
There are different ways of looking
at your death, and each of them
has its own logic and its own illogic.
None of them make it hurt any less,
however. Even the knowledge that perhaps
in some other realm or dimension you
are awaiting me is no comfort today –
for I want you here, now.



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