Audre’s Gone
Audre’s gone.
Do not mourn.
Make a river flow
from the lake that feeds us.
She would have wanted that.
She watches and she wants that still.
Marlon’s gone.
No, he’s here beside us.
Dancing in the shadows.
Planting seeds
that only we can nurture.
Pat has moved on.
She was always moving
inside out to show that
courage is an
inside out kind of
thing.
Essex with his soft and
lulling voice
soothes us and
challenges us
still.
Our warrior poets
haven’t died
because
they used the
voice, the
life, the
love in them
courageously
each moment
to inspire us
forever.
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