"While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil."
--- John Taylor
"Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal."
Padre Pio
Everytime I look at you
I feel I should shed a tear,
Because without you my life I cannot bear,
I don't understand why you left me hear to cry,
To die in a pool of blue,
With no hope of seeing you.
My world is dark and gloomy,
With a hole punched through my heart,
Because now I know that we're apart,
I don't understand anymore.
God, what was I put here for?
katie
Death is only the beginning
Michael has influenced many peoples lives in so many ways, some for good and some for bad. We have all gone through thick and thin together, not in a pysical sense, but in a spiritual and phsycic sense. Somehow everyone that has ever met Michael is connected. There was something about him that was just so unforgetable. He had a way if impacting evertyhing that seemed so simple.
From the day I first met Michael I knew that he was going to change my life, he has always had the ability to effect others where ever he went.
Michael, like everyone else, had his faults and addictions, he continueously tried to defeat the addictions that overpowered him. Michael became a slave to meth. Even with a drug addiction, Michael still helped others through their own problems, attempting to overcome a portion of the evil that has been brought into this world.
Even with all that Michael has taught us in both life and death, there are still people so ignorant to believe that doing drugs will help make their lives easier. Nothing but pain will surface when you try to use drugs to escape some portion of you life that you feel is so horrible that you wish to escape all that has happened. It is the evil grabbing hold of your last sense of reality and hope.
If you let evil take over all is lost to the world until you decide to fight for the precious gift of life that god has given you and at this point, you hold your own fate. For no one but you can ake the decission to change.
These are all things that Michael had to learn the hard way and that some still fight with.
No one and nothing can change the past, but if we can help alter the future of one persons life by using Michaels story, then he did not die in vain and he will continue to help those that wish to help themselves.
As time has passed and everythiing is changing so fast it is easy to get lost inside yourself and to lose your grip on reality. But I am telling you it will not be this hard forever.
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering"
-Brandon Lee_
Michael has become immortal by living his life the way he did and showing people that with every short cut in life comes a million strings and that life is not meant to be easy, with all good comes evil just don't become a servant, don't let it take control.
"If the people we love are taken from us, the way they live on is to never stop loving them, buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever"
-Sarah, The Crow
It is never easy to let someone go, but death is so limitless and I believe that when a person dies their soul is set free to do anything,no limits, no boundres. When someone close to you dies a huge fear is that you will somehow forget that person, but if you think about them all the time then the pain inside seems to dull but your memories never will.
Death is difficult, every person must deal with death in their own way, t has to be one of the most difficult situations for humans. Life and death are the most precious gifts. We must not take anything for granted.
If the people we love are taken from us, the way they live on is to never stop loving them; buildings burn, people die, but true love is forever.
-The Crow-
The truest words of all: I will not forget you. You are in my waking thoughts, my sweetest memories, my dearest dreams. I will not forget you. You have touched my soul, opened my eyes, changed my very experience of the universe. I will not forget you. I see you in the flowers, the sunset, the sweep of the horizon and all things that stretch to infinity. I will not forget you. I have carved you on the palm of my hand. I carry you with me forever.
Ellen Sue Stern, Living with Loss, 1995
Use the uncertainty of life as a constant reminder to be grateful.
Someone once wrote that tears are a river that can carry you forward.
Oprah Winfrey
To Michael From Melissa
In memory of you I write this:
This is a shame we lost you this way, all any of us can say is why???
May God hold you in the palm of his hands, and may your soul rest in peace!
May all your words and wisdoms of hope in recovery always be remembered.
May the love and faith you gave so many never be forgotten.
May the happiness that you shared with all of you family, friends and others fill their hearts with precious memories!
Michael was alot to many, to me he was a friend. A friend that had faith in me through some very difficult times. A friend that to me could really, truly understand my struggles in my recovery. Michael brought a smile to my face when times were really tough' he was always there to listen and give me hope. Michael will be remembered for many lives he's touched!!!
There is something out there; so strong and so fierce. This something does not care about you, anyone or anything.
This something will take from millions and many more, from moms to dads, from sisters to brothers from aunts to uncles and even from one friend to another and still keep taking.
This thing will deceive you, and as cunning as it may be;' the only thing it wants is everything you see! This thing will never go away for it has to get it all your mind, your body and yes it will even take your soul.
What is this thing and does it have a name? This thing is called addiction, and many lives it claims!
Our lives are like clouds
That swiftly sail by and are gone
But blessed are they who turn gray
Clouds to white, whose kind deeds
Are stars on the canvas of night!!
Our souls are like angels with
Wings that are assigned to each mortal
Who dwells in this world; And blessed
Are they whose love conquers strife.
Whose spirits are beacons that brighten each life!!!
