Ode To The Missing But Not Forgotten

The grandfather of a missing woman whom pig farmer Robert (Willy) Pickton has been accused of murdering hopes a powerful song penned by famed poet Susan Musgrave will raise money to help other troubled women.

"It's a gift from Andrea to the missing women," an emotional Jack *advertiser censored* said about the song Missing, which Musgrave wrote in memory of his granddaughter Andrea Joesbury.

The song is a collaboration of Musgrave's poignant lyrics, Galiano Island guitarist Brad Prevedoros' haunting music, and the captivating voice of singer Amber Smith.

Proceeds from the sale of the CD ($18.50 out of the $20 price tag) will go to Haven Society, a Nanaimo-based non-profit organization that for 28 years has been helping women and children escape violence and sexual exploitation.

*advertiser censored* said the song, and his fundraising effort, are not about what happened to Joesbury, but he hopes it will stop other girls and women from being lured into dangerous lifestyles.

Joesbury is one of 26 sex-trade workers whom Pickton is accused of murdering. Another 40 women remain missing, after vanishing from Vancouver's drug-infested Downtown Eastside since 1978.

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'WILL THEY REMEMBER ME WHEN I'M GONE?'

MISSING

By Susan Musgrave

Missing's a word that can't begin to describe

the way I miss you more each day;

You left to chase the wind on high

and the rain rained down to stay.

Will they remember me when I'm gone, you said,

when I've kissed goodbye to pain;

Or will their lives just carry on

in the small hours of the rain.

You may be lost in the eyes of the world,

but how can I set you free;

When there's a whole empty world in my aching heart,

you're the missing part of me.

Ruby Anne Hardy, Jacqueline McDonell, Jennie Lynn Furminger,

Sarah de Vries

Heather Bottomley, Andrea Joesbury, Marcella Creison, Dawn Teresa Crey

Elaine Allenbach, Debra Lynne Jones, Angela Arseneault, Lillian O'Dare

Mona Wilson, Michelle Gurney, Cindy Beck, Laura Mah

Sheryl Donahue, Wendy Allen, Julie Young, Teresa Triff

CHORUS

How far from home is "missing"?

In our prayers you're close beside us every

day;

When you left to chase the wind so high,

the rain moved in to stay.

Will they remember me when I'm gone,

you said,

when I've kissed goodbye to pain;

Or will their lives just carry on

in the small hours of the rain.

You may be an orphan in the eyes of the

world,

can we ever love anyone enough?

You'll always have a home in our loving

hearts,

You're the missing part of us.

Sheila Egan, Rebecca Guno, Angela Jardine, Brenda Ann Wolfe

Georgina Papin, Sherry Irving, Helen Hallmark, Tanya Holyk

Leigh Miner, Inga Hall, Patricia Johnson, Yvonne Boen, Tiffany Drew

Julie Young, Janet Henry, Dorothy Anne Spence, Ingrid Soet, Elaine Dumba, Sherry Lynn Rail

Jacqueline Murdock, Olivia Gale Williams, Catherine Gonzalez, Heather Chinnock

CHORUS

How far from home is "missing"?

In our prayers you're close beside us every

day;

When you left to chase the wind so high,

the rain moved in to stay.

Will they remember me when I'm gone,

you said, when I've kissed goodbye to pain;

Or will their lives just carry on

in the small hours of the rain.

How can we believe in a merciful world

that could never believe in you enough?

Take what strength you need from our

fearless hearts,

You're the missing part of us.

Taressa Williams, Diana Melnick, Kathleen

Dale Wattley, Catherine Maureen Knight

Wendy Crawford, Elsie Sebastien, Marnie Lee Frey, Stephanie Lane

Frances Young, Nancy Clark, Cindy Feliks, Dianne Rock

Kerry Lynn Koski, Sereena Abotsway, Andrea Borhaven, Maria Laliberte

Yvonne Abigosis, Verna Littlechief, Dawn Lynn Cooper, Linda Louise Grant

CHORUS

Missing means you're gone, I can't find you;

My dear one, I'll never hold you again.

You left to chase the wind too high

and the rain can't wash my tears away.

Will they remember me when I'm gone,

you said,

when I've kissed goodbye to pain;

Or will their lives just carry on

in the small hours of the rain.

You may have disappeared in the eyes of the

world,

but when I close my eyes I'll always see

your name, they way you smile, inside my

wishful heart,

The missing part of me.

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aww man, man, i dont even know what ot say, im crying...

Goodness, I'm speechless, too.

May 4 2022 rbbm.
Red dress artwork inspired by Sarah de Vries, one of Pickton's victims | Vancouver Sun
''Joanne Anderson waved hello most days to the friendly woman with the dark curly hair and the shiny, ruby-red platform shoes, who was working at the corner of Hastings and Princess streets.''

“When I remember her, I think of fleeting greetings with a woman that was so beautiful. And when we would greet, I would just see beauty in her eyes. And it always saddens me that she was there, but I was happy that I was able to say hello,” Anderson recalled.

“And then I noticed when she wasn’t there, and I wondered where she was.”

Sarah de Vries disappeared in April 1998. She would eventually become one of the 26 vulnerable women who serial killer Robert (Willy) Pickton was charged with murdering.

It is the memory of de Vries and other women victimized by violence that led Anderson to ask her aunt, a Cree seamstress, to create a red dress that will be hung in the community to try to help generations of trauma victims heal. Anderson tells this story for the first time to mark Red Dress Day on May 5, a national day to raise awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirited people, who are disproportionately affected by violence.''