Nick

Echoing from the rooftop
Over a life of potentiality,
A bellowing cry of
Excellence is heard.

Always different,
Always the same,
As do we all
In life pertain.

A staple
Of hope and majesty,
Undoubtfully living
A life of triumph.

Under strain
And sorrow life pushes
A boulder thought unbreakable
Until it meets its match.

Indestructable rock
Is shattered by greatness,
And now,
Onward!

A victory won
In a war just begun,
An altered life now reaching out
Into the unknown. 


Dedicated to Nick Rutley 12/14/2001


Copyright 2003 By Alvin Shaul


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