This is going to be hard to properly articulate.
Earlier this week, the community of Vancouver Island University was shaken. Dr. Laura Gover, a professor at both VIU and Camosun College, is no longer with us. She was 41.
Students and faculty alike had nothing but kind things to say about her.
Hundreds of faculty lost a colleague and friend.
Thousands of students, if not more, lost a teacher.
Two girls lost their mother.
A mother lost her daughter.
I hate having to discuss things like this on here, and it feels especially undeserved given that I never directly knew Laura, but a human life is a human life, and none deserve to be taken the way hers was.
From the moment I found out about Laura's death, I knew I wanted to leave something for her, just as many others did. Taped to her door is a poem from Mary Elizabeth Frye, which I will share with you:
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
Rest well, Laura. We love you.
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