Thursday, May 13, 2010
MY UNCLE DIED TODAY
A Great Man Died Today…
And though he has helped many,
From his bosom to his grave,
A great man died today…
Even though I told him not to go…
Knowing that my heart would weep,
I know he starts his journey,
On the other side of sleep,
A great man died today…
He loved a great many, as surely he,
Was loved as much the same…
And I know I’ll not forget him,
I shall always know his name,
A Great Man Died Today…
He toiled for love and fortune,
In this world he made his name,
He built many lives and Empires,
And won many hard fought wars,
A Great Man Died Today…
He protected me from the hounds of hell,
And made my journey sure,
And even though he knows I’ll miss him,
He knows by him, I’m well,
A Great Man Died Today…
Written by Teeluck Sooknarine
In Honor of Harry Sooknarine.
May 12 2010...RIP
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So sorry to hear about your Uncle.
ReplyDeleteHe sounds like a great guy that was an important part of your life.
My deepest sympathies.
((Hugs))
Laura
Sympathies.
ReplyDeleteDear TS,
ReplyDeleteSending you my sincere condolences. My thoughts are with you.
Shaw/Joanne
I am sorry to hear this.
ReplyDeleteHe must have been a special human being.
He left you, at the same time he will always be by your side.
Both of your journey's continue.
Laura...
ReplyDeleteHolte...
Joanne...
RZ, Thank you all my friends, he was/is a great man here, I feel happy thinking he will make himself known for his kindness, when he gets there...Thank you again, sincerely Tee :)
My deepest sympathies to you and all your family Tee. Your uncle sounds like a special person who made a great impression on you, therefore making you a special person!
ReplyDeleteTeeluck: My heart goes out to you in this time of sadness. He sounds very much like an uncle I had. He touched my life in innumerable ways, just as your uncle did you. But we can wrap ourselves in their memories.
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Sue...
ReplyDeletetnlib, Thank You for your kindness and concern, you are truly wonderful and I appreciate your kind words at this time...you are great friends, Thank You.
My heart sighs for you, so sorry for your loss.
ReplyDeleteBucko, thank you bro
ReplyDeleteMy condolensces, my brother.
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ReplyDeleteOh, how the truth offends!
ReplyDeleteLadyBird, welcome, apparently you had some disagreements with my late uncle. I'm sure through his lifetime he and everyone has had these issues with others. The reason your derogatory comments were deleted is because we do not fight with the dead...only the living...while they are alive, something I suggest you do next time around. I am sure there are as much people who liked and benefited from his business practices and the jobs he offered, as you can find detractors. I'm sure if you lived and worked (scraped) for a living and daily hand to mouth bread as I and millions of us do here in New York, you would appreciate the ease of how good you folks have it down there, try freezing your ass off here in the winter going to work...any one of us would have just moved on to another job, instead of being a foul-mouthed person, disrespecting the dead. If you were employed by him, and chose not to get another job, or tell him to shut-up, then you should have the courage and decency to respect the dead.
ReplyDeleteLadyBird, BTW I am sorry your comments were deleted, I would have liked others to see how you try to kick others when they are down...or dead.
ReplyDeleteI think you deleted my comments simply because you wished to preserve a mythical image of Sooknarine. But my comments, for which I make absolutely no apology can be viewed by clicking on my name. Your uncle as I said was the nastiest excuse for a human being that one could encounter. Fortunately, I was never an employee of his, but I did give employment to many persons who left his employ in disgust. I do not wish to pollute your site by exposing Sooknarine for what many people knew he was, but the ongoing discussion on my site about him will certainly be an eye-opener for you as you seem to have lived in ignorance of the character that was Harry Sooknarine.
ReplyDeleteLadybird:
ReplyDeleteI have seen all of your comments. You have shown your side of the story.
Don't you think it is time to give this a rest.
The man is dead.
It is bad Karma to speak ill of the dead.
Speaking the truth could never attract bad karma, but lying and supporting untruths will.
ReplyDeleteLadyBird, I do not know how old and wise you are and I will not question that point...
ReplyDelete"Your uncle as I said was the nastiest excuse for a human being that one could encounter."
Obviously you do not fully understand life and our purpose here, or you would know the insignificance of any deeds that any of us do here. The purpose of life really has a lot to do with what you as an individual take with you when you leave here. While I am sure that in your opinion he was the Devil's spawn...his deeds are his cross to bear...not mine or any other human being on Earth, including his children. You and anyone else wasting your valuable and precious, short time, to embrace and savor the sweet taste of hatred are sadly mistaken and you need to learn about life, love and our purpose here...I'm sure yours isn't to trumpet the ills of others. I will not offer apologies for him or anyone else ( and I know you don't want any), their deeds are their own. Thank you for the dialog, and you are welcome to visit often, you will find a lot of love here :)unless you are a Repuglicker.
Like you, I question neither your age nor your wisdom. In fact, there is no need to as your photograph - assuming it is current - reveals one and explains the peculiarity of the other.
ReplyDeleteWe obviously have different concepts about "life, its purpose and significance" (your words), but even so, your ode to the "greatness" of Harry Sooknarine is inconsistent with and contradictory to your own expressed belief in the "insignificance of any deeds that any of us do here". If Sooknarine's deeds were so insignificant here, why the maudlin sentiments of your ode?
But that belief, whether sincere or not, true or not, is certainly an unsound one; it is a cop-out, pure and simple, to trivialize the lack of integrity and morality in all their forms that embody the personas of people like Sooknarine, that guide their actions through life, so that people like you can eulogize their accomplishments without any reference or regard to the means they employed to achieve their success.
You also speak about the purpose of life really having a lot to do with what an individual takes with him when he departs this life. I now ask you what did Sooknarine take with him when he departed this life?
Also, you cannot simply dismiss or ignore the negative and deleterious impact his evil deeds had on individuals and their families by saying "such deeds were his own and his cross to bear" and deeming them "insignificant" by whatever philosophy of life you choose to apply.
Eh Eh! It doh wuk so, Teemul.
This is not a question about "embracing hatred", "ill speaking the dead" or "trumpeting the ills of others". It is all about exposing evil and ensuring that those who violate all accepted norms of simple decency and humanity are not held up as exemplars to our youth, already deprived of fitting role models.
I have posted this response on my site as well as I assume that it would meet the same fate as my original post. You are free to respond there if you wish and in whatever terms you see fit.
BTW, we do not delete posts there, unless they contain outright profanity, and even so we edit or delete the profanity and not the entire post as you do here.
RZ, Thank You, it seems that LadyBird has some things to get off her chest...maybe it's a man-woman thing...whatever it is, go ahead LadyBird...rant away.
ReplyDeleteLadyBird, It seems you are getting some satisfaction knowing my Uncle has died, and although you wish he has gone to some hell and is suffering there, unfortunately only you apparently believe that hooey about Heaven, Hell...and the virgins therein. I am sorry to disappoint you but rest assured whichever fractured religion and dogmas you were programmed to believe, to satisfy your own delusions, there is no Hell for your late nemesis/rival/lover/ex-friend/whatever, to end up in...sorry. Enjoy the rant and basking in glow of whatever twisted limelight you think you are shining in as a result of this weird and pointless tirade you have launched. It sounds like you are even sending some hateful prayers skyward in the hope of influencing some bogus entity up there, to give my Uncle some extra heat for his "evil" actions here.
ReplyDeleteDid you learn anything from him during his time here? If so, please enlighten us as to what?
You wrote:
ReplyDelete"although you wish he has gone to some hell and is suffering there, unfortunately only you apparently believe that hooey about Heaven, Hell...and the virgins therein"
The expression "rot in hell" (which I used) is simply that: an expression. It certainly does not reflect any belief of mine about heaven and hell. Believe me, both states are to be found right here in this earthly existence....and with all the virgins too, much to my carnal delight. :lol:
You wrote:" I am sorry to disappoint you but rest assured whichever fractured religion and dogmas you were programmed to believe, to satisfy your own delusions, there is no Hell for your late nemesis/rival/lover/ex-friend/whatever, to end up in...sorry......Enjoy the rant and basking in the glow of whatever twisted limelight you think you are shining in, as a result of this weird and pointless tirade you have launched. It sounds like you are even sending some hateful prayers skyward in the hope of influencing some bogus entity up there, to give my Uncle some extra heat for his "evil" actions here. Did you learn anything from him during his time here? If so, please enlighten us as to what?"
Me!! Religion, dogmas, entities from above??? Oh God! - and again that is simply an expression. It does not mean that I am calling on him/her/it whatever he/she/it be - Anyone who knows me and my philosophy of life will laugh at any statement that suggests that I am religiously indoctrinated. My old Religious Instruction teachers, the priests at my Alma Mater would be highly amused by your suggestion that I harbour religious beliefs. Christ! (and again that is merely an expression) They had been hoping for that for years, many going to their graves disappointed, like my own parents. I was nearly expelled on different occasions from those august institutions on account of my religious irreverence.
But you know what amuses me is that you have taken one simple expression: "Rot in Hell" and my use of the word "evil" to embark on an irrelevant and misconceived tangent about my presumed religious beliefs, about heaven and hell and those poor virgins who if they do exist up there must be longing to depart that overly sanitized and boring celestial jurisdiction. Had you tried one of the more simple dictionary definitions for "evil", such as:
a- morally objectionable behavior.
b- that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune.
c- the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice.
you would have reserved your monologue for another occasion.
Contrary to what you suggest, I never knew your uncle. I never had the misfortune of meeting the "man" and I used the word "man" charitably. I have no idea what he even looked like, although I was told that he was a very dark skinned Indian who functioned from a wheel chair. So there is no personal history, no vendetta, no secrets, good or bad, no bitterness to vent, no chips to off load, nothing of the kind suggested by you. I am simply one person who over time has had the opportunity to interact with so many of Sooknarine's victims, all of whom could not be lying on the man. And if only 10 percent of the things I have heard about him were true, then he was a truly horrible human being. But it may interest you to know that even his sons Jefferson and Kenrick (I met Kenrick a couple of times some 15 years ago) have had nothing complimentary to say about the man.
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You wrote:
ReplyDelete"I do hope you will not allow yourself to continue down this road of despair as it could have some adverse affect on you if in fact you make this a long term venture. I do appreciate the fact that you were respectful to me and invited me to your digs. I do look forward to a continued dialog with you about this or any other subject you may choose to explore, as I do think there is some middle ground to be found here. Please feel free to visit my blog anytime, and have a good day. Good friendships sometimes start like this."
I will let the matter rest now, but I must tell you that I only raised this topic because I felt your description of Sooknarine as a "great man" did a true disservice to all truly great men by putting them and him in the same category.
I reciprocate your closing sentiments and wish to assure that you also are welcome to continue your visits to our site and to participate in any of the ongoing discussions or to initiate some of your own.
The above response was posted on our site as well.
ReplyDeleteThank you LadyBird, the experience has been enlightening...
ReplyDeleteMy uncle died 3 days ago on the other side of the globe to me... and I feel rather lost about it. Honestly I didn't have much to do with most of my aunts and uncles but this guy I really looked up to and respected. A friend called it when I didnt' even see it: he was a hero of mine.
ReplyDeleteNow he's gone I'm feeling rather like the wheels have come off. Do I go his funeral halfway around the world, spending money I don't have, taking time off work I don't have, or do I forget that and try and get past this hurdle by going to work, and... just trying to ignore it.
A good man is gone. Just need to get on with things now I guess.
Anon, I think you are correct in that you have to keep it going, get back to work and make him proud of you in your own way. Also, don't ignore the fact that he is gone, celebrate it as an honor for you to have shared in the existence of a good man, celebrate the fact that you had the honor of sharing his life, his time here...and he was proud to have shared yours as well.
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