You know,
I have read every single post on the petition because I am helping Sula monitor them and I thought they were touching but it didn't really get to me. I heard Mr. Hewson died and I felt sad for Bono but that didn't really upset me a lot. I read about how some people have cried and I thought that that is sweet but I didn't get it. But then I heard that Bono couldn't finish WOWY, and I just started crying and then I read the lyrics to MLK and that just made it worse. If I feel like this for someone I have never met who is on the other side of the world I can't imagine how Bono feels right now. I have no right to grieve, and the harsh, cynical side of me is accusing myself of indulging in voyerism, but I can't deny it. That Bono couldn't finish that song got to me. It got to me in the way that hearing about war victims in Kosvo got to me. It's just a sad thing that I wish I could have helped.
This song has been running through my head the whole time, and I don't know how it is appropriate but in my head it is somehow.
"When the night has come
and the land is dark
and the moon is the only light we see
No I won't be afraid
no I won't be afaid
just as long as you stand
stand by me. ...
If the sky we look upon
should crumble and fall
or the mountains should tumble
into the sea
I won't cry
I won't cry
No I won't shed a tear
just as long as you stand
stand by me"
Blueeyes