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Your arrival predate mine by two generations Five weeks now since Your permanent departure Internal thoughts conflicted Forever reminiscin’ Your heavily influenced overture 13, a younglin’ Curtain rise’s inception On my personal narrative Shaped by your first instruction Of the working traveler’s adventure And the stupidity of the expletive Return to the current The destruction you’ve forgotten Placed on those survivin’ Untold secrets unearthed Potential debts realized Your true legacy questioned, reminded 15 and rising Through my own personal ranks Of adolescent confusion You provided the tough shoulder The ethics of work and moral My own personal boulder The passage of space and time I slowly began to realize The truth of youthful blinders Your treatment of your holy union Your honesty toward my path Gradually affected my thoughts like a re-winder 20 and extended Family now a subplot Of my evolving tale Your conversation overheard A secret three-word exchange Hammered in my story’s first act’s nail Defining decade now in the rearview A passage of peaks and valleys Bringing about my current trajectory Your skeletons undug Of four adulterous decades And of your duplicitous victory Your praise of adventure Of old-fashioned ways Once lived in my inner core The darkness revealed Taints the memory Of your eventful lore The days move forward The pain of your loss lessens But not to the point of forgetfulness Difficult as it and I may be To forgive your fables But mention, I will, of this As the curtain closes And the chapter ends Of this insightful arc I’ll remember the personal moments Our private interludes That left a permanent mark A symbol of perfection For that you may have striven But I’ll tell you a secret You were merely a human An occupational hazard being flawed Bound for inevitable regret Our time here is over But forever you will exist Until my own curtain call Then may the Great Beyond dictate We join forces again And traverse the Celestial Hall
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