By: Cedric McClester

One day we’ll all be dead
Let’s celebrate their lives instead
Who cares what someone said
Or what we might have read
Their work will speak for them
Can we all say amen
They left us much too soon
Where’d they go to the moon

They all sang a song or two
And some could glamour you
Others could take you to
Heights you never knew
Long after they are gone
Their music will live on
So even though we’re torn
No need for us to morn

The accolades repeat
Until again we meet
We have to be upbeat
Parting is bitter sweet
No more barricades
Or no need for charades
Call it life’s big parade
Into the darkness we fade

They sang a song or two
And some could glamour you
Others could take you to
Heights you never knew
Long after they are gone
Their music will live on
So even though we’re torn
No need for us to morn

All this goes to show
Is that we never know
What time they have left
Before we’re left bereft

We have our memories
Of all of our used to bes
That we can now frame freeze
Before crying God please
Make us grateful for
The ones we can’t ignore
Who we won’t see anymore
So remember their last tour

They sang a song or two
And some could glamour you
Others could take you to
Heights you never knew
Long after they are gone
Their music will live on
So even though we’re torn
No need for us to morn

One day we’ll all be dead
Let’s celebrate their lives instead
Who cares what someone said
Or what we might have read
Their work will speak for them
Can we all say amen
They left us much too soon
Where’d they go to the moon





Cedric McClester, Copyright (c) 2016. All rights reserved.














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