Elucidating Questions

Oh I’d been avoiding the topic, but it appears he has demanded my attention by making me laugh to tears

Richard Simmons was huge when I was a kid

My mum owned a bunch of his workout tapes

I used to watch them just because he seemed like such a friendly person

It had been so long since I laughed that hard

Truly funny people tend to have a darkness to them

I have been afraid to show any sort of reaction to natural deaths

Afraid because these people, they always have some dark secrets

I put my faith in too many who turned out to be awful people

At the very least he tried to bring lightness to people’s worlds

I hope he went to rest with minimal things to regret

I don’t really laugh anymore, do I?

Besides the fake laughter

It had been so long since I’d actually laughed at something

Not some chuckling at an inside joke I have with myself and the universe

If his intention was to bring some laughter to the world he succeeded

I came to the realisation long ago that my adult years would be spent saying goodbye to people I never met who I loved for some reason

I sense this feeling of completion

I can only hope for the same feeling when Death finally comes for me

I don’t know whether he was an actually good person or not

But he brought me some joy

Just to see for a moment

Peering into the world of yesteryear

Wishing I had lived my life while I had it