I knew this girl,
We weren't really friends,
I knew her and I knew her family,
one of her sisters I would say I would
have talked to regularly, not sure if she would
classify me as a friend, I like her and I think she
likes me, lets say we are friends then.

Anyway, last week this girl and her friends
where having a few drinks before they went out,
kinda a girlie thing they did, the girl was coming
down the stairs and she fell a few steps, hit her head,
and shortly after that, she died.

She was 41 years old,
and what anyone who knew her friend or otherwise,
would call a character, a gas woman,
the life and soul of everything, and everyone.

Her death is such a shock, and her loss immense
to her family, her young children, her sisters,and
everyone who knew her.

In Ireland we have a tradition, its a house wake,
I think it is a wonderful, painful tradition,
so myself and a friend went around, just to say,
goodbye to her, and to show our respects and thoughts
to her family.

I never ever before, understood about the saying
the life and soul, until I stood beside her, for
she was no more, it was hard to see her there,
I mean her the person, because her life and soul
was truly gone,and it made me see the body is really
just a shell, it is who we are within that people
see, the good person, the fun person, the lively person
and when she was alive she was all of them, and it was
shining from her everyday, any day I saw her, I saw her
light, her soul, her energy.

The places she belonged, the people in her life,
its darker now her light is gone.
I think that is a wonderful testament to the person
she was, I think she would like that.

God bless, Susan and Rest In Peace.

M