i touch my finger to your pictured face
\nwanting so to come home to you
\ni’m not afraid to stay here
\nbut i grow weary and it grows hard
\nand harder still
\nit is
\nyes again
\nThanksgiving Eve
\nthe day before
\nturkey gobbling
\nstrutting parades
\nand children starving by hundreds of thousands
\ntoday’s news:
\n* U.S. submits missile defense plans
\n* Tropical storms loom in south Asia
\nyesterday’s news:
\nIn Myanmar they are torturing Buddhist Monks!!!
\nbut you came
\nyou left
\ntoo soon for us
\nyes we know how you suffered for humanity
\nand why 23 years was more than enough
\n2 and 3 the number of life
\nmy dear persecuted
\nby peers and not so peer
\nthe scorn scorning adults
\nsimply because you were a happy handicapped daredevil
\njeaously can be so very deadly
\nbut you kept smiling
\noh, such a one, at peace with yourself
\nthose last many days
\nyour own mother could not stop that ocean
\nof pain and why why whys
\non this paradise called Earth
\nwe still have not learned to get along
\nagain i remember
\nthe staying because your mother stays
\nyour mother staying for friends, relatives, and me
\nyou, who so knew
\nthe power of love
\nspirit, alive and strong
\nreminding me
\nreminding us
\nflowers bloom and flowers die
\nbut the essence lives
\nin our hearts
\nwhenever they are open
\noh my yes
\ni will be thanks giving in the morning
\n11\/21
\ngood night my departed friend
\ngood night to your mother too
\npeace you gave when you touched our lives
\nours if we but pause
\nthere now i pause
\nand coulda\/shoulds\/woulda pressed delete
\nsave for the zillions of suffering mothers
\nfathers too
\ninstead, if my brain functions long enough
\nto send my message out in space
\nwith a chance to heal
\n“It feels right, do it!”
\nwill i make it?
\nhang the nest!
\nfly!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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