Sunday, February 26, 2017

Day 26: Poem Written in the Wings of My Own Wake

Poem Written in the Wings of My Own Wake

Who wouldn't prefer
to be remembered

for something kind
he did, anything really

selfless or the way
he sang or shot a basketball,

it almost doesn't matter what.
I can't think of one person

who lived his whole life
without pissing off some

coworkers, friends, the postman,
the neighbors. Dearly departed,

think of the man
who buried him, who marked

his grave. Both go home & sing
their children to sleep & wake

to one fewer sun left in their lives.

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