Thursday, October 22, 2009

 

RIP Cutty

Lately, my blog has been a bit glum but today I'll attend a funeral for a slain classmate. We sat together at the Kingstown Anglican School and like all children we dreamed big dreams that would take us to the top of the world. Never did we imagine that death would visit one of us at the tender age of thirty.

In 1991, we parted ways when I went to the Girls High School and he to St Martin's Secondary but still the friendship remained. It took a log in to Facebook to realise that Cuthbert May was the man shot in a bar whilst playing his favorite game of dominoes. I don't know why he was shot and I'm not going to speculate. The tragedy is a young vibrant man was brutally taken from us and increasingly there is scant respect for the sanctity of life.

As I write I am thinking of how our lives become interwoven with the persons we meet on our journey. While we were not best buddies in our adult lives the news of his death has made me nostalgic for a time when life was simpler. I remember Kingstown Anglican School when the most important thing was passing tests, playing games in the school yard and trying hard not to offend Mrs Ackie and Mr Kirby. I remember crying my eyes out because I had to kiss Olson on his birthday and how some the boys teased us mercilessly. Not Cutty though, he was always cool; to me at least. I remember how excited we all were when we passed Common Entrance but sad to be separated from each other. On another level it forces me to look at my own mortality when someone my age passes. It just doesn't feel right.

My heart goes out to his girlfriend a fellow Kingstown Anglican and GHS classmate, and the people who knew and loved him. I will have this abiding image of him with his glass of red wine and playing the game he loved dearly. Blessings Cutty, so sorry you had to go this way and I hope somewhere there is a safe game of dominoes waiting for you.

Comments:
I'm very sorry to hear about this. My condolences.
 
too sad
 
although we were not riding buddies as a neighbour the head nod when we pass each other would acknowledge... hey there is a friend around.... It is very sad that he has a son that will now be without his biological father... i know he is slamming those dominoes down and have a happier time....

peas owt
 
True Kgombe. So sad that a child will not have its father around. Slam them dominoes for real
 
Very deep..I didn't know Cutty (even though i am a KAS 1988 grad and SMS Grad). he probably was in class with one of my bros...may he RIP. I pass by KAS most days an dthe pangs of nostalgia always occur..
 
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