A face I’ve worn
Seemed all of me,
Three scores plus
And ten more be,
Finds recall days
Of endured inure,
Yet stayed in kind
Somewhat obscure,
Be neath a surface
Nigh on infinitude,
Tho of sculpt crags
That does fit define,
Held but scallywag
Worn on my mind
Be a face I once had!
Where are you now
Since the gods chose,
You take a final bow
So, without appose,
Back in those fifties
And tho but a prose,
The while too young
Halfway near its start,
Of a life barely begun
Be end of Marc known,
For too soon ye be gone
As angle save Beelzebub,
Yet in memory ye be found
Was a young man still in bud,
Lived life before ‘twas started
In a kind in time conjures a rosebud!
Image - Wikimedia Commons
Music - Almost Blue by Chet Baker
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier
ov written in Montreal
January 2, 2002
posted in Sweetsburg
June 5, 2022
I’ve a lifetime invested
Searching for a place,
I might have rested
In its calm embrace,
Afore weary bones
Be made yet carry,
A still spirited body
Seeks but want tarry,
Tho when and where
Suggests not to hurry,
As fate leads me there
Will somehow show,
The many times before
A pleasure held to roam,
In idle distances and more
Save till now finding anxious,
Cause be looking for way home!
Be hollows stark
Painting a mind,
In shadows dark
To survive time,
Be need of world
Best ne’er blind,
As creatures we
Given short line,
Expecting future
Soon fades offline,
Will want a tutor
For make believe,
Set as fake humans
Be computer achieved,
Save a life’s meagre race
Holds no reason to grieve,
With compos mentis in place
Ye ought find painting a mind
Seeks not dark shadows embrace!
He’d not stay long,
In life’s short run
Be too soon gone,
As if one shunned
To an early dawn,
From a place won
In a shortish song,
He as a brother be
Far too young gone,
Gods fixed not see,
As life span of a pawn
Alas was short-lived run
Thus, alike an early dawn!
Might you have parted
without telling your friend,
dear Marc, until it was too late…?
Ode, two scores late, for the passing
of Marc Tetreault, the rarest of dear friends.
written in Sweetsburg
April 17, 2022
Imagery - Wanderer Above the Sea by David Friedrich
Music - No Problem by Chet Baker Quartet
Audio - recital by Jean-Jacques Fournier
PS: If there should be an afterlife or such a thing as a next life,
Marc is the one true friend I would seek to befriend again.