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Poem for my Friend
The distraction of the day
Reminds us we don’t want to be alone.
The night reminds us we are alone.
The sadness of your night cannot
Be distracted by Mike’s day anymore.
You only have painted memories
Reflections that are teasing
While you grieve something that was so genuine.
Matthais, there was no meaning in his death
That doesn’t detract from the meaning
His life had for you.
The bond you had with him wasn’t destroyed.
Its an obligation to go forward now
Because Mike made you something better.
We have no soul
But the best of us have a constitution.
A sort of gravity others can revolve around
It’s a pulling force that helps others forget
The emptiness that wants us to collapse.
But our search for the light which might save us
Is always solitary in the end.
When we die alone though
We are the people that others helped us to be.
My nights are animated by the light you have given me.
Mikes death shouldn’t extinguish the torch
He helped light in defiance of the night.
