Bill Roberts, Poet

In Passing

Author: Bill Roberts

To the Memory of Mary Alice Kelly

Looking back,

the years seem like days,

a photograph of each one

makes a tidy treasure

of memories, each a reflection

to be studied, recalling

that special time together

when we….

when we….whatever you

care to recall about

being with her, Mary,

such a special person,

so here when she was here,

so gone now she’s gone.

The photos of her needn’t be

real, in color, instamatic –

simply memories of her,

painful at this moment,

more soothing as time passes.

I have mine, you have yours –

she gave them to us freely.

Be off, take to the wind,

dear friend.  Come past again,

let us know we’re not forgotten.

We won’t forget you.

Precious Mary.

Published in Mary’s Celebration of Life service booklet at the Atonement Lutheran Church in Boulder, Colorado on September 30, 2011.

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