Dr. D. (Ole Farmer Dewars)

Something sublime about you I cannot shake it from my mind Something that never came to view Life is short and dreamers blind Time lapsed into a itch of memory When school days were done Love baited you for gallant history Beauty is fragile in the sun. What happened at the wailing wall What turmoil or wisdom deep Rose like a geyser to turbulent fall On the sensitivity shook from sleep? You came to our tropic shores again Transformed, removed, distant From all reality - untouched by pain Or thoughts that made men hesitant I saw you once from a passing car Too fast before I knew to stop Did not seem you were gone too far Nor heard Horus dark wings drop They said one day you walked from the pier And never tried to swim away, silence Marked where the wide eddy appeared And I still sift for love the muted evidence.