So gentle and kind
Always thinking of others.
Sending love in the mail
and sometimes
money
and greetings
from all the family
Always
trying to prove
through numbers
that GOD exists and also
that lotteries can be won.
What is more red white and blue
than a U.S. Postal worker?
Never married –
to care for a
mother
then brother.
Never rewarded with some of life’s
greatest
pleasures
marriage,
family, education.
Always avoided “pleasure danger”
fame, fortune,
ego…
So gentle and kind.
He didn’t deserve to die like a mutt in
the road
who wears no collar,
has no family, home.
Others acknowledging the driver
has feelings so… “glad you’re ok.
As for
The other…guy, oh yeah.
Don’t worry – you were
in the right of way.
Maybe he was drinking.
Perhaps on drugs?
You – go home, to the family you love.” |
So gentle and kind
always caring for others.
As life seeps away
was he talking of his mother?
Or Voula, his sister,
he surely was thinking, and
Lee his brother
just cannot come see
him like this. Just tell them
both, I am fine, don’t come.
He’s given the care to try
and stop all the dying
but dying he does
Anyway,
Like a dog without tags or
Fancy collar.
A simple rope, perhaps, for i.d.
“No one at home.
All Alone
No one to miss.”
Oh so wrong-
So many
who
loved.
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