Here's a post I wrote upon hearing of the death of an athelete's daughter's death on twitter.
And the world must go on.
I, for one, must open my Twitter Feed,
and Bernie Sanders, he must tweet about Universal Healthcare.
And just after Bernie, that parody account of Albert Einstein,
he must tweet that You Must Chase Your Dreams, then add a smiling emoji.
A few Disney Pictures too must be on there somewhere – mostly
under Tweets You Might Like – with some Why Onions Make You Cry posts.
Why, though, must the world go on?
And her mom, she said all her little girl wanted
was to be the fastest person in the world,
but the world must go on, faster than neither of us can run.
Yet we must chase our dreams, no matter how fast they run,
but most times they run faster than all of us.
And the world, under an irrevocable spell to go on,
runs even faster than they do.
A few more years and she would have had her dreams,
had her speed, she would have run faster than it;
faster than neither of us can run; faster than the bullet
that lost its way; faster even than death.
A few more years she might have made the world stop.
But the world must go on. The world must go on,
But I, for one, I keep a space for you on my Twitter Feed,
and I will open it, and see you all over, perhaps before Bernie’s tweet,
The Super Girl Who Made The World Stop.
I, for one, must let you know
that you made my world stop.