Death of a Poet by Indran Amirthanayagam

          Death of a Poet

After the poet,

who remains?

We have to fill

absence, distract

ourselves

with words

and music

until sadness

fades, and we look

to the sky,

see his face

in cumulus cloud,

shining out

of the sun,

and think

he is not

the only one

smiling

in Heaven

beckoning us

to think beyond,

the now,

what

happened

to his body

and to our

history.

            Indran Amirthanayagam, October 6, 2012