MEMORIES/MEMORIAM

*duVois

Fading snapshots

Of things and people and events and happenings

Once quite real

Sometime ago

Sometime in the past

Sometime somewhere

Some things and

Somebodys

Like pinballs we bounced about each other

And others unsteered

Bouncing briefly off us,

My friend networks

Family and friendships

And years

The times we had

The pluses and minuses

Amongst jokes and cusses

The Universe and

World problems solved over beers

Late into the night

My list of memorables is infinitely long

Stretched to fulfillment

If you’re not on the list

You’re still with me

More memories still

As we slide still into our Winters

Family gone before?

Yes, of course

Friends and Family

Family and Friends

I am me because of them.

Memories

What smiles

What heartbreaks

What laughter

What joys

What shenanigans

Meaningful to some

Meaningful to me

My memories are mine

My memories

My reality

Melded into one

My memories I shall take with me

In perpetuity

My spirit I leave with you

A toast in memoriam*

To alls y’all

tom tenbrunsel

Carl Sandburg Writer 2023

*In memoriam:

George, Lou, Don, Cepheus, Wotier, Ken, Paul, Jim Williams, Jake, Jim Hood, Ed Foster, Jerry K, Tom Jackson, And of course, Family what took leave all before me.

The message is that while memories dissolve, the spirit remains. While I grieve the losses, I revel in their memory, which in time I join.