Eclipse

                 

                                             At midday

                                         The moon rose up

                                         Blacked the sun

                                         And in the darkness

                                         You quietly slipped away

                                         While no one was looking.

                                        

                                         Hushed now -

                                         Brave, sensitive heart.

                                         Your rumbled voice and stormy laughter

                                         Were stilled this day by shadow.

                                         Good bye, good friend. 

                                         Good bye.

                                        

 

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Lisa wrote this for her dear friend Richard Albert after he died of diabetes in Oregon in January 2001.