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In Memory of Michael Jackson (1958-2009)
What do you say to the world when you lose one of the most important notes to life’s historic soundtrack? How do encourage a promising tomorrow when a part of your musical heart has lost their battle for today?
As my fingers carefully embrace these keys, my mind is without consciousness, my heart has gone low key and the reality is sinking in… Michael Jackson has just died.
Yesterday, June 25, 2009 at 12:21 p.m. a 911 call was made and soon after Jackson was rushed to a UCLA hospital with no pulse suffering from cardiac arrest. After several attempts from paramedics and hospital staff to revive him, the Icon was later pronounced dead.
At first word of this news, like most of you I dared not believe it’s authenticity. Michael Jackson is a part of our history, and quite like my own family I never expected his star to ever fade away.
Yet as with all things in life, death is a promise before dying, quite like life is a guarantee for those willing to live. In truth, we all have sand in a predetermined hourglass that carries our legacy from conception down to the last grain fallen. No matter the date, or the dawn of your last sunrise, life up until your final sunset reflects the glorious road taken that led you onward towards your defining midnight.
Michael Jackson’s sheer devotion to the world and his lifelong dedication to music leaves not only our radios locked in the corridors of AM Static, but also delivers us to a void that will forever remain empty.
He was an Icon to say the least, but for African-Americans, he was an inspiration. Through him we saw our own promise, with him we learned to believe.
We will miss your forever Michael Jackson and wish the family you left behind strength, love and will. With peace in our hearts we say farewell.
“I would have liked to know you… but your candle burned out long before the legend ever did.” - Elton John
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I still can’t believe the legend I grew up listening to him is dead :’(
I’m so sad and it hurts like a knife in my heart!!
R.I.P Michael..for me, you’re not dead, you’re alive in my heart.
Love from Saudi Arabia.
We will always remember Michael Jackson!
R.I.P
man oh man
R.I.P and I pray for peace for his parents and siblings in this time.
I hope he has peace.
I left work on the elevator saying a prayer for Mike to pull through and by the time I pulled out the lot on my phone the news said he passed….I’ll never forget this day like I wont 4get 9/11 or Nov 4th (obama)…
He was the soundtrack to my elementary years. He will be missed dearly. I just wish ppl let him rest in peace despite everything that happen in the past. Everyone has stuff that was not good happen and u keep moving. He just happen in the public light since he was little. RIP MJJ ur music will live forever
R.I.P
RIP Michael Jackson!!!
You will be missed MJ!
I can’t even type what I’m feeling….he was THE BEST EVER!!! I’m glad he’s resting with God, but we will miss him. He will live on. We miss you and love you, MJ. There will never be another like you.
It’s two days later and I’m STILL in disbelief! As a musician myself, this is the most devastating news I could have even gotten about someone who I looked up to, especially when I didn’t know him personally.
I mean, come on, this is MICHAEL JACKSON!! The musical genius, a world reknown icon, the humanitarian, the definitin of dance….. How do we recover from such an untimely loss???
I am so hurt and in disbelief..Everytime I read an article I want to cry..I am fighting back tears right now..the world does not feel right..I couldnt even sleep Thursday night I was so devastated..Like many others I did not meet him or have the chance to see him in concert but I feel like this has got to be one of the worst days of my life..he is music..no question..he is not one of the greatest or the greatest in the past century..he is THEE GREATEST..My heart is so heavy and I wanna cry evry 5 minutes..its such a strange and painful hurt..i have no words..i feel like the music industry is dead now..i feel like we will never see a real music genius like him again..i feel so bad for my neices an d nephew who cannot witness Michael Jackson , who I felt was the physical DNA of music..he sacrificed his childhood to show the world what music is..he was a sacrificial lamb for music..I only hope he is surrounded by the loving arms of God and he is finally at peace with himself..I am so hurt
I am deeply hurt by this, like many other people I Michael Jackson was one of the artists that was/will always been on my list of people who I wanted to see live and in concert before I died, it never dawned on me that he would go first! Like the writer said his was a star we never expected to fade, and he will surely be missed. Rest In Peace!!!
It is hard to believe we have truely lost a Icon. He will be miss so much
But never forgotten. My Prays are with the Jackson family and children god
bless.
R.I.P Mike
He has been my idol hole my life I miss him very much and I can’t believe that I will never hear his new song,or something interesting about his life all that left is the music that always will make me happy and the sadness for you R.I.P Michael.
RIP…MJ
To Rican honey, that picture is a bit…eh for someone in mourning.
r.
I.P mikie i will alwats love u 4 ever ur mii inspration i didnt think that u would every die cause ur like the best thing that ever happened to music
LUV: alexia
YOU ROCKED MY WORLD MICHAEL JACKSON
THANK U FOR BEING THE MAN THAT CHANGE OUR LIVES FOR EVRER
REST IN PEACE
ILOVEYOU
Someone said that Life is not about how many breaths you take, but about how many moments in life that take your breath away. My heart cries for you, Michael. Part of my soul has gone with you. Feel like someone just switched off the sun. You are in my heart, you are in my mind and i don’t know what to do with all my love for you. One day i will be there, i do want to believe that in that life i will have a chance to touch you. But i’m here and i will enjoy your songs, your everything. Every time i here your voice i feel like angels smiles from above, and your smile is the most touching, the most beautiful thing i have ever seen in this life. I miss you, Michael and I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ U SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH.
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