I wrote this poem on Thursday, May 5th, 2021.
It was written as a gift to a coworker to commemorate the death of her father.
I believe this was the second (or third time) I'd written a poem to commemorate an occasion. Both times, I did so rather quickly and on the fly, as I usually do, which fills me with a desire to write more poems to signify life events.
I felt I accomplished a consistent tone of reverence and a toeing of the line between somberness and hope, all of which serves this poem well and which the words in the poem find themselves characterized by.
My coworker was touched by this gift and I believe she read it at her father's eulogy, which, in turn, touched me.
I hope this poem touches you all, too.
I hope that, if you've lost a loved one, that they are, too, angels amongst us.
Enjoy!
DEW