Tides Ever Fall and Rise - In Memory
Written for a dear poet I knew who succumbed to cancer. Also more than a few other poets I've known have died in the past several years. This is in memory to them all)
Tides ever fall and rise as they proceed
through time as God, the Maker, has decreed.
A poet standing on a lonely dune
saw billows rolling in beneath the moon,
and pondering, he watched the waves recede.
At dawn, he'd note each rock and swaying reed.
There surged within him verse that would exceed!
With sky and earth and sea he was in tune.
Tides ever fall and rise. . .
Then swallowed by a wave of illness, he'd
not falter, for he knew where death would lead!
His poetry and friendship were our boon.
His ashes on the currents have been strewn;
his kindly soul to heaven flown is freed.
Tides ever fall. . . and rise.
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