Penned on 1-20-2011
This is a poem that I wrote to help a dying friend understand the reason we live and die. I hope this is not inappropriate here but I find many people think of death is the end where I know it is really the beginning.
From the thoughts of a mangled mind…
Death:
The definitive sum?
Taken away upon a breeze
Sparkling dew from a deep freeze
Watching vestiges drift and disappear
Nothing left, not as much as a tear
As the Earth becomes our new home
Words left behind are found within the tome
Long awaited for the day that was long over-due
Tears lost my friend were for you
Once stepping upon the sands of eternity
Words once left are for perpetuity
Many searches are yet to come
Left for not the totality but for the sum
Let those who live on this day
Know that death is without tempered dismay
Lose not a moment of lingering time
For tears are but a moments mime
Know this my friend
Within this poem I too have left my précis
As to death, my thesis
Ashes to ashes… Dust to dust
My words, my insight, my truth is given you in trust
Keith
