as tough as I was I crumbled on the ICU floor as much as he loomed so large and unforgiving only laid out, looking bad except for his dignity which is mostly what I remember about him on that day, this man who couldn’t give me what he never got himself he looked like an eagle lying there he wouldβve liked that a bird in mid-flight the gray in his hair like silver in his wings his broad face and broke Irish nose his proud jaw set flying up into the greatest sky against the wind. |
Powerful and poignant.
Thanks Mama! Black text on a white screen. π