Friday, January 18, 2008

Tribute to a Friend

We buried my friend today, and with him, a little of myself

Elementary school playgrounds and sleepovers, Baseball & Scouting – games won and lost, adventures shared

The outdoors was our realm; all things were possible then, a bit of me died today

Mini-bikes and horses, fishing poles and 410’s

The outdoors was our realm; all things were possible then, a bit of me died today

Camping trips and swimming holes – midnight horseback rides

The outdoors was our realm; all things were possible then, a bit of me died today

Orneriness & sneaky tricks, brown sugar brownies & homemade soup, palm-frond tree-forts & great leaning oaks to climb

The outdoors was our realm; all things were possible then, a bit of me died today

Fast cars and high-school girls, road trips to the ocean and Disney World

The outdoors was our realm; all things were possible then, a bit of me died today

Adulthood, love & marriage, we hope and pray it lasts… Li’l bundled blessings are born to them ~ life begins a new

The outdoors was our realm; all things are possible now, a bit of us survives today

Leaping to the future, what might “they” say, they were faulted and fragile, nay-say? Perhaps?... are not we all…

The outdoors was our realm; all things are possible now, our life’s work, that labor of love, with God’s Grace, moves on…

We buried my friend today… a piece of him lives on

Good-bye Gray…

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