LEGACY

Sometimes it may seem unlikely that you matter

and that you too matter

yet you both do

when the dust settles and

the drumbeats of war drowned and

the ghosts of companionship stand appeased

by the steely silence of an empty seat at the top of the dinner table

when the roaring ambition dies

to be replaced by complacent acceptance 

of fate as it shouldn't be

you still will matter

rest then

in solid solidarity of oneness

knowing too that you too matter not only now

as you were but then as you'll be

always.

for in the fullness of time, when the thunder dies and

the skies clear and

the props drop and

everybody recedes in the bitter-sweet aftertaste of farewell....

only you two must carry the legacy

shall carry the legacy

carry the legacy

the legacy

my enduring footprints in the sands (mud?) of time.

© August 2016