2 October 2008

When you read this I will be far away

Beyond the reach of any human kind

And all that was my body and my mind

Turned into ash or snugly bound in clay.

That part of me you knew is now dispersed

Into the quarks and protons that combined

So many years ago, till they refined

A human child, who grew upon the earth,

Who loved and laughed and lived until the day

When, as all creatures must, he stood before

The immutable and universal law

Of transformation, fusion and decay.

           But while memory survives among my friends,

           Your love and these words will never end.

Brian Hick October 2008

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