'Tis a dark day....

I am upset...nobody has died literally, or is abt to. But I accidentally found out (through the most misfortunate of channels) some heart-breaking news abt a friend of mine. I can't understand the choices and the path that this friend has taken. I feel disappointed, shocked, and the pain that God must be feeling. I thought I had helped to steer this friend back to the right path...but I guess not for long. Sigh....why like dat???

Funeral blues
By: W. H. Auden
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West.
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever; I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.