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Rest in Peace, Rest in Power

3/26/2019

 

Let peace be yours that was not had
    When life flowed in your veins,
Who came from a beginning sad,
    A world replete in pains.

We never understood the rage
    Nor what the triggers were,
As though a beast fit for a cage,
    Yet you grew milder.

A proffered finger may get bit,
    Yet you would take no bribes;
Nor hatreds ever hate remit
    Laden with diatribes:

We grew to learn a sort of peace
    Albeit tentative,
A comity—now death’s release
    Leaves us bereaved to live.

Nobody ever knew such joy
    As you put on display
When irritations that annoy
    Seemed briefly gone away.

I felt the moment your breath ceased,
    But death, as death will do,
Not undiminished but increased
    Keeps love pulsating through.

So rest in peace. A story closed
    To never be writ down,
But on our hearts impressed, imposed
    A message of renown.


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