Steve & the Reticence of Death
Death is a Gentlewoman Who comes on slippered feet Floating Like a Geisha Surprisingly tender For those who see her She comes in answer to prayer She comes despite prayer She has her own time She will not relent But she will be soft She touches a cheek She is the final act of Love This world offers And the first act Of the next She is the only one Positioned thus Only she understands And she neither needs you Nor I to comprehend It is all in a breath Then it is clear: A life happens in a breath And she brings release With the final respire June 26, 2018 Sunbury, PA I didn’t know it then, but Steve would die a mere 8 days later. So many things start and come to an end in our lives. Many of those things we may deem as a disappointment. Many, we commit to the “best of times”. Still others are unremembered: Unremarkable. Steve’s death was all of those things, but none of them. How could we not term the death of a loved one a disappointment? Yet, his life and the time we were together were ...