Michael, I watched you for the first time when I was five years old. It was 1988, and INXS came on TV. I remember vividly your hair and your voice. I was sneakily watching the video when my parents were in the other room. I wouldn’t know until years later how your songs of love, lust, heartbreak, desire were so beautifully simple, yet epic. They transcend experiences and shake us to the core with your sumptuous lyrics and mesmerizing voice. What a kind, sweet, complicated, artistic, voracious man you were. At ten years old, I saw the video again, this time, mesmerized again, yet with the budding understanding of what your lyrics could mean and with an instantaneous attraction to you - hoping I’d grow up and feel this way with a man who was a handsome as you. Now, at 36 years old, and knowing you passed at 37 and having the understanding of your life as a full on adult, I ache for you, your family, and all the people who were lucky enough to know you. We all have wings, and yours were meant to fly.