Their Music...An Auto-Eulogy: My Tribute

Shining stars were dulled by life fatally falling while achieving Greatness in waiting... Unaware masses treated after to voices and chords of the heaven sent A mantle of greatness slipped past their passing Shining bright white, talent seared crowds adored in memory of... critics acclaimed in tribute to... An ironic parallel to painters worth A sad likeness to poets past Value found in the absence Presented posthumous...their life, the opening act The maddening downfall, an artists demise Seeking connection through disconnect Numbing to feel, destroying to create Creating a cyclone of their lives to sit in the calm eye Recounting the swirling chaos in detail Equal parts self absorbed and self loathing Achieving insight through that fragile balance A portfolio of brief brilliance served as auto eulogy... An aftermath of adoration for those discovering A genius that had yet found limelight glare But oh how it glares in their Genesis!! A crypt of creativity indelibly houses souls made immortal to those they inspired while they lived... ...And all those who will feel their songs in death ...and always to me **In memory of Bradley Nowell FEB. 22, 1968~~~MAY 25, 1996 and Jeff Buckley NOV. 17, 1966~~~MAY 29, 1997 --A tribute to those taken too soon