Response to a Dead Poet

1989

The words were written
"Mortality is knowing 
that our lives will come to an end.
Immortality is living 
on in spirit forever.
"So we consider ourselves mortals -
but our body dies
and our song lives on.
"So aren't we really immortals?"

I peeked at her soul,
and in it was the magic of art.
Art is her song,
the great blue her canvas,
the clouds her paint,
and the wind her brush.

Your song is inside me,
for I am inspired by your touch.
And somehow, I know
when my times comes,
and my mortality ends,
I'll meet you on 
the path to immortality.

And when my tracks cross yours,
I'll join you in the trip 
to whence our spirits emerged.
On our trip of immortality.