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Resquiescat in Pace - Christina Grimmie

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Rest softly now, for only angel arms
Embrace thee,– soft pinions bear thee away;
Quit from quarrels, cruelties, pain by day,
Unkindness, struggle, human strife, and harm.

I see thy shining furrow, silver star,
E’er lingering yet on the midnight sky:
Sublime beside the lowly and the high;
Crowned with thy voice, which moves me from afar.

All things must go,– but wherefore soon, so soon?
That all the days that thou hast yet to see,
In one monstrous moment wrenched, torn from thee!–
No more… senseless and cruel… and far too soon…

Peace enfold thee, e’er more,– for this I pray
Although cold grief seizes the wounded heart,
Cloys in the throat,– I cannot bear to part
E’en as thou movest far and far away.

Canst the love that thou hast giv’n voice, thy songs,
Hold me from this deep abysm of tears?–
Repair this heart so it may bear the years
It must now suffer shorn of thee, and long?

Songbird, nightingale, silver star… thou art
The muse that made the darkened day seem bright…
I cannot bear to move without thy light,–
Nor seek to pass beyond the grieving heart.

A shining furrow glimmers… and grows drear.
Grim is morrow without thee to greet.
Rancorous is the dawn that once seemed sweet.
I know this world is less without thee here.

Muse and music-maker, sleep evermore!
Me only grief enfolds,– I cannot cease…
I pray that thou, Christina, rest in peace
E’en though thy voice still echoes on this nearer shore.
There is a moment of horror when you read the news are realize someone you know,- however distantly,- has been shot. I saw the headlines on google only about an hour after they came up. I spent the next hour constantly refreshing the page in the hopes that some good news would materialize.

They did not.

I am 24. Ms. Grimmie was 2 years my junior. I first saw her in her video with Sam Tsui and Kurt Hugo Schneider, 'Just a Dream', and have spent the subsequent years occasionally listening to her. That video came out in 2010. WHat that amounts to is that her music has been a presence within a sixth of my life at this moment. In a way, it's like knowing someone rather distantly who has grown up with you. To suddenly hear that she had passed away due to her injuries,- it creates a certain coldness in the heart that is almost indescribable.

2 years my junior... I realize people say that you are an adult when you reach the age of 18,- or 21 in certain countries,- but to have died in so violent and sudden a manner; to have one's dream cut so short while it was in the ascendant; to have one's life ended before it had really and truly begun...

And of her family,- what parent should ever have to bury their daughter?

It is all monstrous in a way that I have trouble describing.

I am not a religious person, but if e'er there was a place for the blameless and the good, I can only hope that she's found her place there. 
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This was beautiful. May Christina rest in peace.