Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks November 2014: Remembrance | страница 15

And today he ignores us,
in his suit and kept hair.
This man will sleep
just like we all will soon,
so I gaze, somewhat
ignorant and wonder.
How long would it take
to love him?
Longer than the process
it took to take him or a lifetime.
Anyway, we played with the images
of memory in the speeches,
Or the fact that his moustache
was neater than the suit itself.
I never saw the death of this man,
but I was told it was peacefully.
So I watched as those curtains closed
and I repeated the Hail Mary
to myself and with the grace
of the man he was, he left us.

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