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Occasional Poetry - 73. Eulogy
Eulogy
You always were both person and a place
where everything felt absolutely right;
as long as we were sitting face to face,
the world beheld within your smile's embrace,
we scintillated in that golden light
surrounding those you'd chosen to invite.
And everyone was to your heart invite,
no person in your home was out of place
where conversation affable and light
made welcome all who sat at left or right,
as long as they good humor would embrace,
for ever did you prize a laughing face.
So with a cheerful courage did you face
the host of ills grey aging must invite,
and optimistic hope did you embrace,
lest ashen apprehension take its place,
a spot to which such evils had no right,
as from your countenance they'd steal the light.
I reckon now the fuse was set to light
that blast upon your temple's southern face
in springtime, with the weather coming right,
when birds of every feather must invite
another of their species make a place
to bill and coo and haste unto embrace.
Instead of greening, groaning did embrace
your frame beneath a surgeon's brilliant light,
and though he put your bones back into place,
I feared how illness dared to change your face:
it to your ancient structure did invite
collapse, catastrophe, upon the right.
And now you lie ensconced in angles right,
a world of dust and ash must you embrace;
yet if I could your spirit still invite,
your smile again my sun and moon will light,
and with full brimming heart, the world I'll face,
with everything uncertain now in place.
Come wrong, come right, no matter time or place,
embrace the Sisyphean tasks we face,
as we invite your love, your joy, your light.
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