LOSS

MEMORIES OF ROBIN

Diamond 1

Robin

39 today

My son Robin

Today is his birthday

A time for great celebration

A time to look forward to another 39

A time for the family to unite and rejoice

Or would have been had he still been with us

Which of course he is not as he is dead

Not passed on or beyond the coil

Not in some cloudy realm

There is no other term

My son drowned

He drowned.

Dead

Diamond 2

Dead

A final word

Why not say it

Forget the platitudes

They don’t change things

Nor do they make anything better

Truth means more when does not hide

Behind the façade of the facile.

I am not alone in weeping

Others have also lost

Passed on? No.

Dead

Diamond 3

Memorial

Under a tree

Slowly growing.

A distorted bonsai?

The frangipani belongs

To coastal climes far warmer

Then here in a cool but beautiful

Valley high in the mountains of Timor

Which is where he wanted to be.

Amidst a place he loved and

A place that loved him

Amidst beauty and

Many memories.

Memorial.