If you die will I get word that you’re gone
Will I hear it in passing conversation
Will I stop short and fall to the ground
Distance is short when your hand carries what your eye found
Hold my hand just one more time,
to see if you’re really gonna meet me
Hold my hand just one more time…
- Elias, Dispatch
given to me by a little girl at an AIDS orphanage
December 1, 2006

