Best Simons Poems

In 1977, you starred in an episode of doctor Who.
If you hadn't died, today you would've turned 82.
You starred in an episode of "Enemy At The Door".
You were a very talented actor but not anymore.
In 1989, you starred in "The Woman In Black".
Sadly, you died...

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Death to you, the same to me,
As conscious is to soul:
Undefined yet understood
In broken words “to be.”

Science seeks to word, the other,
Self, but not the same,
Parts unpaired from pairing smother,
The claim in titles’ game.

Religion boasts the word, the all,
Of us, but also of the game,
Parts...

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And so my brain prepared itself for a memory.
It knows how to now.
Instead of waiting for damage to remember along the lines, it just warned.
It warned of what was soon to come.
Death.
Of a grandparent.
Of a piece of gold embroidered into my veins.
A piece of gold...

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