A very brief eulogy for Benazir Bhutto. May she rest in peace, and may her country find it as well.
This house hath been a fairy’s dwelling-place;(photo: Mary Ellen Marks)
...She who stayed with us a little space,
Then, as was meet,
On her immortal journey went her ways.
~Hafiz of Shiraz
2 comments:
Thanks for an appropriately graceful and simple eulogy. I've struggled with this event and wanted to write something. The days immediately after the holidays have always held a certain dread for me that are a microcosm for larger dread. I always feel something awful lurking, waiting to happen. This event didn't help that any, but thanks for posting something appropriate.
Yeah, what JunkThief said. And that's such a glamorous photo, like she was a fifties film star a la Jane Russell. And like I might do with a film star from some past golden age, I find that I invested a lot of vague hope for Bhutto's potential to come down from Exile Heaven and do something dramatic, even after she'd been in power already and hadn't done that. Totally unrealistic, I knew then and know now, but this death still made me sad.
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