who lived life hardfast,
and full!
an adventurer
seeker
rainbow chaser
My reggae dancing buddy,
we danced beneath a wide drunken sky
"If you know what life is worth
then you will look for yours on Earth…"
The way you lived your life,
its like you knew.
Always a smile,
a laugh,
an offer to help –
my go-to guy anytime
a 2am computer crunch
rescuing my first webpage,
and my sanity
now here I am, still…!
Well, we went our own ways
you East, me West
our paths haven’t crossed in years.
I have only heard of your struggles
secondhand, bits and pieces
passed through others.
But my thoughts
have flown to you, often
and I know you lived life to the limit
and fought a good fight
I’m sure of it
with grace, dignity,
beauty,
love.
We will miss you
Eric Yann Battle
9/14/76 – 8/28/06
**There is a new blog set up to honor Yann online. Find it here: Remember Yann
Here is Yann’s webpage (best viewed in IE, not Mozilla). To follow the broken links, just replace the outdated "acns" part of the address to "res".
Edited 5/2010 to add a link to this new post of mine mentioning Yann, and adding this pic, taken from his webpage.
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Sorry to hear of the passing of your friend Eric. You wrote a beautiful tribute to him.