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San Francisco Aids Year English Couplet

There was a sense a feeling a consciousness
Ill and loosing friends long ago in San Francisco
Visiting when I was sharing vanilla shakes
All that he could eat and enough for me
We both tired so quickly, sitting together
Watching a tv show, washing his dishes 
There was so much fear and ignorance
People did not want to learn or read
I miss him even now after so many years
Remembering those young days gone by
Blue skies, gray fog, white clouds
Tall Eucalyptus trees aromatic leaves waving
High up in the hill, a white cross waiting for Easter
Moments soft and quiet, caring contemplation
The worries, the pain, the uncertainty, still there
That sense of awareness, even a presence 
A kindness, a Force seemed near 
As we struggled to be alive as much
As we were allowed as the fog rolled in
And the nights grew dark and cold
The city lights, and the soft winds,
Gave us a kind of ease and even acceptance ensued
A sense of a Force that was close by
Ready to receive us and bring peace
Something — a presence without judgement
Was there -- that ended the burden of life when it was too much to bear
A Force universal, a Force that was waiting a Force that was aware

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Panagiota Romios

Date: 4/9/2023 8:04:00 AM

What a wrote, Linda, I was living in the marina in San Francisco when iAidex . I wnt to City Hall to honor the Mayor and Harvey Milk. The city was hit hard by this. I worked for PAC Bell as a 411 operator. Of the app employees, only three of us were straight. There was much wrong info going out. 95young men died. Oh those Eucalytus trees, the fog, the huge loss of life.a fav poem. Pangie

Linda Milgate
Date: 4/9/2023 7:11:00 PM

thank you for your thoughts, such a hard time so many good people lose, I was straight also it was good for all of us to have different friends I was in a car accident and was with him while I recuperated a lot.until I had to move out of San Francisco.By then his friends were able to help him, so that was good, we connected off and on and then he was gone. Being a 411 operator must have been rough any time but during then, and now with Covid. And so many people killing people. its a hard time too much stress. Take care!!!