Category: Dad

Thoughts on leaving for good

8/13/2014

For Vincent Francis Urbani’s Dad
And all those who passed away

When a soul leaves this world for good,
it might leave behind memories,
specks of dust on window sills
which we might gather, wondering
what *we* will leave behind one day
when our time has come
to leave this world for good
and bond with timelessness.

Henrik Eger

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L’chaim, to Life

8/13/2014

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For Diane, one of our best

When her dad
Aged,
My stepdad
Aged, too.

When her Dad
Died,
Something of my stepdad
Died, too.

When her Dad’s wish
To be buried on a Jewish
Cemetery, right next
To his wife,

I remembered
My parents’ wish:
To rest together,
Forever, only feet apart.

And when, after the funeral,
She came back to us,
Something in all of us
Returned, too:

To life,
To bella Italia,
Zum Leben,
L’chaim.

Henrik Eger

Photo of gravestone at Durham Cemetery, Bucks County, PA by Tammy Schane. Visit her website, Tales of The Tombstones, here.

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