Dear Mr. King of Pop...
Dear Mr. Michael Jackson,
Never had I cried when finding out the death of celebrity. But today, June 25th, 2009, I cried when I heard the news. I am not that type of person who is easily attached to a person I do not know personally, but I felt my heart stop when I heard Katie Couric’s voice announce that you were gone from this world.
Not only was is your music that I loved, but it brought me and my everly MIA stepfather together. The man who raised me as if I was his own. Your music reminded me of that and I loved you for it. It made it easier when he was gone days, weeks, and months at a time flying higher than any person should really be. It gave me hope that everything would be okay. When I was missing him, I would listen to you and your uplifting music of you’re earlier days. Listening to the album Bad, I thought of the time we spent together in Chicago. The happiness that I felt; the feeling that I had a family. But now as that feeling sits in a jail cell for another drug related offense I feel like your tragic passing was a sign.
(An overdramatic sign from God, but a sign nonetheless.)
With your passing, that feeling is now gone. The fact that you were the one thing that made me feel like my family still had hope. We bonded over your music when he was home but now that your gone, your music still lives on, but perhaps this is a sign that this feeling of hope that he’ll come home is gone. The streets are his home now. And your music will sit in my iPod and in my CD case, as a simple memory of happier times.
May you find solace in your new home. (Are the clouds comfy?)
Dear God,
Please accept the lost soul that was Michael Jackson into your kingdom. Forgive him of his sins that he have committed. Comfort his children in the news that their father is gone. Ease the pain in the hearts of the Jackson family and the millions of fans he leaves behind. Ease them and let them know that he is in safe hands. Hold the child within the man and help him heal the wound on his soul. Forgive and accept him.
Amen.