sephtao
01-20-2003, 09:24 PM
The begining of this album was moving. Poe describes finding a box containing a cassette with her father's voice on it - and she was shaken to her foundation. I wonder how I would feel if I found a recording of either of my parents voices. I am 34, not old, but certainly no longer a child. My dad died when I was 16, my mom died when I was 29. My mom threw an enagagement party at a local restaraunt for my sister, then had a fatal heart attack 2 days later. In the ensuing week, going through her stuff, I found a thank you letter she had written to the restaraunt staff thanking them for the excellent service. I kept that letter; it was the last sample of her beautiful hand writing I would ever have. Two days after my mother's death my sister received a card in the mail; it was sent by my mother shortly before her life ended.
I am haunted by the idea of life after death. I hope my parents, and all those departed, live in a better world after this one. Some times I feel like an atheist, simply believing God is just a fairy tale. Other times I feel like there must be a God, and therefore life after death. I often wonder if my parents are somewhere watching over me;all the while the existance of an afterlife burns as a question that cannot be answered, or at least not now.
I am haunted by the idea of life after death. I hope my parents, and all those departed, live in a better world after this one. Some times I feel like an atheist, simply believing God is just a fairy tale. Other times I feel like there must be a God, and therefore life after death. I often wonder if my parents are somewhere watching over me;all the while the existance of an afterlife burns as a question that cannot be answered, or at least not now.