Marcel: Another Year Without You
Bernard Jan
Award-winning, multi-genre author, novelist, and poet; animal and human rights advocate
Another challenging year, another months, days, hours, and minutes and you were not here with me, and you never will be. And I needed you. Because these past twelve months were hard. Sometimes very hard. And I couldn’t hold you in my arms to find comfort in you.
It is selfish thinking, but everything about you is painted selfish. You were my world, nothing less than that.
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Yesterday we had a serious talk with Sa?a about the possibility of putting you down. We have not talked to you about that, but somehow I feel you foresee it, that you have exposed us and that nothing remains hidden from you. You read all around you like X-rays, and stoically, calmly, and gracefully handle what is coming. I wish I could be brave like you and look death in the face with equal force and dignity. The hopelessness of your nonexistence, which covers me like a magician’s cloak, prevents me from that. Stealing me, stealing you. I do not agree to such a deal!?As long as there is a fire in you for one more battle, as long as you do not say it’s over.
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In Memoriam
Marcel
April 19, 2006–April 19, 2024
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Thank you.
BJ