Of the lives that lived in between.
The bracketed years reveal to the current
The joys and the troubles they've seen.
On any given day a person is born
You can record the date of their birth.
And on any given day a person can die
And you can record that they've left this earth.
And the morning we made our dusty descent,
An accomplishment undiminished,
We learned of the others and their bracketed date,
And our own, that remained unfinished.
So it is incredible to believe the end can be met
At the hands of someone we knew.
He put an end to life, he put an end to himself,
But he didn't put an end to you.
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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the murders of Vincent LaBianca and Isabel Munoz, my manager and co-worker at Empire BlueCross Blue Shield at the hands of our Assistant Vice President, who thankfully committed suicide immediately after. He saved all of us a lot of legal proceedings.
The first three stanzas were written about 9/11, an event we survived by safely getting down from the 29th floor of Tower One the morning of 9/11. The last stanza was added after the murders.
As I've done on other milestone anniversaries, I've taken out an In Memoriam sentiment in the NYT to appear in their In Memoriam section on the obituary page.
It's a simple 10-word sentiment, lifted from a Carnegie Hall program that I think is a Danish sentiment:
No one ever dies who lives in hearts left behind.
Still true, after 20 years.
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