MJ

Dear MJ,

A year has gone and yet it feels like it was just yesterday that you left. Ever since, images of the last moments of you never cease to existence. It was abrupt, this saddening news that leaves us in a sudden gloom. However, we can feel your presence surrounding us. Not in your voice or your image, but your evident kindness, your everlasting contribution to the charity and most important, the presence of your being in many fans whom you have touched with your music.

To see you alive in one dimension and to go back to reality and realize that you are not, is an illusory epiphany. Like I said, it’s too sudden. There you were preparing for your special, extraordinary performance for your fans, and ironically, you weren’t there to celebrate.

I was never much of a fan, but after watching “This Is It”, it saddens me to see that that astounding amount of talent has gone. Just like that you left us with mysteries surrounding your departure. No one ever knows what had happened to you.

You’re a star, MJ, and we hope you shine down on us from up above, where you belong.

I wrote this after I watched “This Is It”. It was too soon, his death. How can someone this humble be tortured for the price of his popularity?