Wet Willy's blog: "Reoccupying The Space"

...it's been 10 years...it's not any better...you'd think after all this time...I'd forget you...I can't...10years ago today we sat in a classroom...remember the seminar for the CEUs? Our assignment was to try to convince each other to do something we knew the other wouldnt'...I tried to talk you into going to Columbine...the kids there needed us...you worked so well with the kids where we worked...we knew something bad was going to happen...just didn't know what...you stood fast...didn't give an inch...you were bound and determined to wait it out...even the kids at Columbine couldnt' entice you into leaving...I remember how you looked when I tried that as a means to get yo out of there...the look on your face...I knew I was close...to getting you to safety...it was hard for you to not go and help those kids that survived...but your woork ethic wouldn't let you walk out on those that were already dependent on your care...it was fun...I enjoyed the banter...even if I wasn't successful at getting you away...

I miss you...

VT reopened the west wing of the second floor of Norris Hall yesterday in ceremony...one of the teachers that died in the brutal murders husband will be in charge of the new area opened in honor of those that died and where his wife saw her last moments of life...I can only hope that his dedication to life and learning and his will to teach that, can endure the thoughts that will surely overcome him from time to time...
Sometimes through tragedy we learn the heroic nature of many people...
My thoughts go back to the holocaust survivor and his sacrifice...he held the door while his students escaped through the window...Liviu Lebrescu was his name...he was a Romanian born Jew that gave his life on the observed Holocaust Day in Isreal...

I rededicated this writing of mine I had written in honor of someone that saved my life while making the ultimate sacrifice a couple years ago, to Mr. Lebrescu's wife...

Are You The One?

Are you the one that's left behind
To search every face in hopes to find
That true love that is now so elusive?
For the one that's gone and on you live?
Every smell, every sight constantly reminding
You of the love so bright, so blinding?
Are you the one that time now tortures?
Nights so long--memory scorches...
Are you the one whose world's torn apart?
Wonder now why you even have a heart?
Are you the one for their life given?
Wish you could just slip into oblivion?
Are you the one that squeezes their pillow?
Knees get weak and sway like willow
At the thought of the loss, the dreams escaped?
Are you the one that longs for one one last taste
Of the intoxicating gaze of your lost love?
Rest only comes knowing that from above
You're being held in your love's embrace...

it is time to reoccupy the space...the void that has been left by the absence of such great influences in our lives...and let this season remind us of the One that made the most precious sacrifice of all that we may live eternally...