Title: Leaving Hope
Subtitle: A short on tragedy
Disclaimer: it all belongs to Luca$
Author: Liz Skywalker
Author E-mail: lizskywalker@hotmail.com
Author Website: http://www.geocities.com/lizskywalker
Summery: A short-short OT Luke on tragedy written on the fly and not checked
over to help me get over my feelings about what happened on Tuesday. I'm posting
it b/c maybe it could help you too.
/*-*/
Why do bad things happen? No one really knows. One second you're there and
everything's fine and the next, bam. It's gone. Your world, your life, your
future. Hello, my name is Luke Skywalker and my world just changed forever.
I was 20, grownup or so I thought. I lived with my aunt and uncle on a small
farm. It was an idyllic existence, I realize now. But then I hated it and wanted
to get away. Now I would give anything to be able to go back to it, see my aunt
and uncle again, and be able to tell them how I felt. I would give anything,
anything, to apologize for the things I said, the things that I didn't mean, and
to tell them how sorry I was for the times I had yelled at them. I want to tell
them I love them.
But they were killed. The Imperials got them, shot them down in their homes. I
wasn't there. If I was, would I have been killed also along with them? Would
that have been better, for me to go down with my loved ones instead of living on
without them? Ben Kenobi, the old hermit, would say that I need to live to
avenge them, but right now I just want to sit down and cry. Things...things are
just taking turns for the worse. But, I wonder, can it get any worse that this?
My life, the life that I wanted so very much to end, has ended. I have no hope
left. All that's left is sorrow and slight anger.
But I'm leaving the remains of my home now. I'm leaving the last bastion of hope
in my life. I'm leaving with someone who I hope will become my new source of
strength. We're going to fight the Imperials and bring down the ones who killed
my family. I hope we succeed. Maybe then I can get over these feelings. Maybe
then I can truly live again.
/*-*/
Finis. 9/13/01 10:40 PM
Subtitle: A short on tragedy
Disclaimer: it all belongs to Luca$
Author: Liz Skywalker
Author E-mail: lizskywalker@hotmail.com
Author Website: http://www.geocities.com/lizskywalker
Summery: A short-short OT Luke on tragedy written on the fly and not checked
over to help me get over my feelings about what happened on Tuesday. I'm posting
it b/c maybe it could help you too.
/*-*/
Why do bad things happen? No one really knows. One second you're there and
everything's fine and the next, bam. It's gone. Your world, your life, your
future. Hello, my name is Luke Skywalker and my world just changed forever.
I was 20, grownup or so I thought. I lived with my aunt and uncle on a small
farm. It was an idyllic existence, I realize now. But then I hated it and wanted
to get away. Now I would give anything to be able to go back to it, see my aunt
and uncle again, and be able to tell them how I felt. I would give anything,
anything, to apologize for the things I said, the things that I didn't mean, and
to tell them how sorry I was for the times I had yelled at them. I want to tell
them I love them.
But they were killed. The Imperials got them, shot them down in their homes. I
wasn't there. If I was, would I have been killed also along with them? Would
that have been better, for me to go down with my loved ones instead of living on
without them? Ben Kenobi, the old hermit, would say that I need to live to
avenge them, but right now I just want to sit down and cry. Things...things are
just taking turns for the worse. But, I wonder, can it get any worse that this?
My life, the life that I wanted so very much to end, has ended. I have no hope
left. All that's left is sorrow and slight anger.
But I'm leaving the remains of my home now. I'm leaving the last bastion of hope
in my life. I'm leaving with someone who I hope will become my new source of
strength. We're going to fight the Imperials and bring down the ones who killed
my family. I hope we succeed. Maybe then I can get over these feelings. Maybe
then I can truly live again.
/*-*/
Finis. 9/13/01 10:40 PM