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Created on: May 27, 2008 Last Updated: June 07, 2008
Title: (Hospice Final Journeys)
Though now all deceased
At the time of the interviews
They were very much alive
And awaiting their deaths in a hospice
Their touching reflections
About daily having to face the cold fact
Of their impending deaths
And their "whiles-alive-images" in black and white
Those poignant full-faced photographs
Were veritable "before-and-after" studies in quiet courage
That resonate with all the living
And the equally emotionally powerful images
The sympathetic photographs taken just after their deaths
Are wondrous depictions of faces
Of long-suffering souls finally at peace
And the complete sets
Of "before-and-after" photographs
And their accompanying personal stories
Truly touched and affected millions worldwide
Millions who pondered their own eventual ends
When death would finally come calling too
Were spellbound
As they read those poignant stories
And they cannot but thank those brave departed souls
Who posthumously shared reflections
Of their past and present
And their apprehensions about an unknown future
An unknown future
Which today is a moment of reflection for the living
As they too ponder their own unknown futures
And wonder when they too
Will embark on the journey of the departed
May their souls rest in perfect peace!
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But yet continues
"Never"
(In Loving Memory
For my Tattooed Queen)
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The debt paid before the crime,
Left but never
The Long Wait
The leaves fell down
Upon the autumn grass;
Frailty in every shade of red...
I sat by the window for a closer
Not a day goes by that I don't think of you
Neither sunrise nor sunset that I don't hear your voice
Or miss your laugh
And
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Nothing but blackness appears
There is resistance
Death whispers in my ear
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