Slaughter of the Soul

When Mary Oliver wrote these words, she might as well have been writing about Ozzy Osbourne or Tomas Lindberg.

Rest in power Tompa. Your music made our lives better.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life

I was a bride married to amazement.

I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it's over, I don't want to wonder

if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,

or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.