लव लॉस life

My family has just experienced a devastating loss of a loved one. The loss was sudden and senseless. I don't think one can ever come to terms with a death like Adam's. I can only accept that it is incomprehensible and unfair. I know that this is the way of life sometimes.

I am reminded of Robert Kennedy's variation of the verse from Aeschylus's Agamemnon. Kennedy misquoted or intentionally tweaked the verse when he announced the death of Martin Luther King to a crowd of supporters in an Indianapolis African American neighborhood. It is also the epitatph on Kennedy's grave marker.

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God