In Memory



He was there on the wall,
His name chiseled and small,
Such a small token for such a large price;
But still, it was nice,
A remembrance.

I rubbed a deep letter,
And wondered if I was better
From the hole that he left in my life;
It cut like a knife,
That memory.

He was my brother,
A friend like no other,
Of my family, my flesh and my bone,
And now gone-
Just a memory.

And I vowed in my heart,
Though eternally apart,
That his gift, his life and his name
In that stony frame,
I would remember.

©Phil Hodgkins 2002

Midi is "Fanfare For The Common Man"
by Aaron Copland

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