Bill Roberts, Poet

Finding You Gone

Author: Bill Roberts

I learn by accident of your accident,

your passing, quite a shock,

your life suddenly over.

We lost touch these past few years,

and that’s regrettable — my fault

more than yours, certainly.

Your life scrolls before me in segments

familiar only to you and me,

nothing monumental.

But there were times we had fun,

together, and I’ll remember

our funny moments.

Life is over for you, gone,

but you’re on my mind, will be,

as long as I have one.

(Published in a 2010 issue of Pegasus Magazine)

That’s how 2011 has gone, losing way too many people — family members and friends.  This poem is written to all, not with any one person in mind:  Doris, Mary, Pat, Bill, and five or six others.  It’s a year I won’t forget but wish I could, for the sake of those gone.  The memories of each one lives on.

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