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The memory of loved ones lost, family passed and historical lessons left unlearned, this is a recently finished poem from 2009
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©Gerry Black 2010
Dead, don’t look back 24.5.9
Our dead do not turn into a blink of coins like golden-age computer foes,
left clinking in the clutch of Memory’s purse, leaving by some sorrowed,
‘settled’ score.
The dead do no more than any fallen
stops and dropped
apostrophes are
wont to do: give grammar to the living stream of racing,
rampant conversation, pause it only...
...directing through the funeral door, bequeathing just a list of reasons
to think on: live on, learn to dance, make music, rest peacefully not excessively
and on;
through the doors of life and passages of Memory they teach quietly from beyond
to those patient or respectful who still stop still now
to look back smiling, through the grave to an age
where time was never stopped by tombstones.
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