'Death is a somewhere else
altogether...'
'I would like to
travel there! '
'I see no future
in the past...
the Present
is where I
live & laugh! '
As if to emphasise
the point
all her wrinkles
laughed at once
reminding me
of a caricature
of W.H. Auden
I had once seen.
Nexf day
a day shy of her
84th birthday
tired of carrying her life
around with her
she simply
put her years down
and left for that
somewhere else altogether
leaving only
a smile that seemed to say
'Gone for Lunch
-be back in an eternity.'
Dónall Dempsey
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-being-84-in-84/
