''What You Are to Me, Must You Ask'' Reprised

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A poem of tribute, love, and appreciation for Rose...


What you are to me, must you ask?
     Then let me say and say it well.
In the past, you once wore a mask,   
     a face of what I could not tell.  
Then, like a god, you take to task   
     my proud conceit cloaked in a shell.  
 
Today, intense and raven-haired 
     with wisdom fit for Pallas Athene,  
you are the souls that seldom dared 
     to be the friends who've never been, 
the confidantes with whom is shared 
     my hope of things 'oft never seen.
 
Now, like the Atlas map and chart,  
     you're a compass to guide my paths
through hopelessness that filled my heart.
     And so, life's trials and downdrafts  
are less severe because you part   
     my sea of pain so I can laugh.

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