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Sep 2015
Upon a tree I chanced to see
a travel weary bumblebee
frustrated in his search for nectared flower
Upon a flower he did light
and died upon that second night
though I would sooner stay that fateful hour

A lesson learned by such as I
who from afar must feel you die
and dying too myself in tiny leaps
But you are gone and I am here
my soul is numb, my mind unclear
my vision so contracts to He who sleeps
A poem I had forgotten about, written for a close friend a few months after learning of his death, during a period of abject grief.
Written 28 December 2002.
Cori MacNaughton
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Cori MacNaughton
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