InsaneJournal

Death touches this island in wicked ways. In too many ways, too frequently, really. And there is no service we might do for all those who fall, whether we know them or not.

But I thought it might.. be more equal and respectful to erect a stone wall and write the names of those who pass upon it. Each of them! Even if they are gone before now. And let there stand a permanent marker to their lives here. A collective marker, rather than individual stones. Are we not a community of misfits? Lost in the void. For though, when we die and leave this place, we are leaving behind a piece of ourselves. We have irrevocably touched each other in many ways by simply being here, and so we might honor those influences by remembering those who come and go.

And with such a wall we may let our names and theirs stand in testimony to the future inhabitants of this island. I am under no illusions and believe that one day all the original dwellers will be gone from this place. And who should remember us but the stones and the streams and the lonely streets?

Let us leave our legacy, if only in name, if not in deeds.