AVE ATQUE VALE

AVE  ATQUE  VALE

Flotsam and jetsam

of a shipwrecked life

come together

in belated harmony

to sing a first and final

farewell of gratitude

for being’s beauty

and nature’s majesty,

for light and laughter, 

the moon’s fidelity

and all the music

of mankind.

  August 2, 2011