A Chant Against Death

(for Aidan & Ruth)

say family
say friends
say wife
say love
say life

say learning
laughter
sunlight
rain

say cycle
circle
music
memory

say night & day
say sun & moon

say
see you soon

from I been there, sort of: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2006), copyright Mervyn Morris 2006, used by permission of the author and the publisher.

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