- How do we forgive the merely human?
- How often do people rise above,
- only for a moment, to fall again?
- How relevant is a story like Lord Jim,
- Or Gunga Din?
- Today we mourn what might have been.
- If only we weren't all fallible and human
- and prone to sin.
- Maybe the answer lies
- Not only in how a human lives
- but also in how we die.
- When the fallen are still
- Side by side they lie
- None greater, nor lesser,
- No matter how we dress up the grave with stones.
- Inside is an equality of bones.
- We can honor their courage
- And mourn them still.
- We can meditate sadly on their failures
- ...and still mourn them
- They did what they did
- For good or ill
- And their memory is in the winds
- blowing through our minds
- Christopher H. Holte, 7/5/2019
Thinking of Ed Schultz and a host of others I have admired at one time. Or not.
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