It was the trip in London during July 2005 when visiting Hyde Park for the famous Live 8 concert, coming by chance at her "home" (Kensington Palace). I have found a new born respect and appreciation for this beautiful woman."England's Rose" "Queen of Hearts" and "The Only Queen We Wanted", read some of the many messages on the wall at her castle.
I want to write something ... in her memory ... but I simply can not do it. Words must be invented so I can describe the feeling I have every time I see people bringing her flowers at Kensington Palace celebrating both her birthday and her death.
I have been too small to understand the sadness around me the day she died. I was a young boy when I heard one of our neighbours telling to my mum the sad news. I remember the tears of my mother and couldn't understand why ?! I still don't understand why her death can cause so much sorrow . . . I remember the long talks my mother with her friends were having. And I couldn't believe the power of this women had, the power of making people happy and making them to believe in themselves. . . and in a better world.
But one day was given to me, to be in front of her "home", around the park she had always enjoyed a walk with her sons. To be near the gates that always opened in front of her . . . I have been given the opportunity of standing together with people that knew her... the chance to see how people from different countries and races are celebrating her death. I have been given the opportunity to stand in front of the biggest mountain of flowers I had ever seen. I had been given the chance to read the messages from the people who loved her wholeheartedly, the chance of seeing what she meant for the people she "ruled". And in that I believe. In the love those people show to her. In the respect and honour I saw that day at Kensington Palace. In the beauty of her eyes and the word s of Elton John:
" Loveliness we’ve lost,
these empty days without your smile.
This torch we’ll always carry
for our nation’s golden child.
And even though we try,
the truth brings us to tears.
All our words cannot express
the joy you brought us through the years.
Goodbye England’s Rose,
from a country lost without your soul,
Who’ll miss the wings of your compassion
more than you’ll ever know. "
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