Sunday, September 07, 2025

1192. Poem For Dan's Departure - Kate Farrell


So much do we love

Talking to people we love

About ideas we love

That thinking becomes a conversation

With people we love about ideas we love.


Being your mother

Became a conversation

Where your quiet ideas furthered

The attachment  first fastened

In the far configurations

Of destiny.


I am honored that the universe

Loaned your childhood to me,

Adding such a bright star

To the constellation of conversations

That I am becoming,

For, however far apart we are,

Your considerate voice stays with me,

Enlightening my thinking.


I wish I could give you

A small package of whatever I know

That is worth knowing

To take with you wherever you go.


I wish you would call me from time to time

And tell the part of me that is you

Where your part of the conversation

Is going.


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