Tears For The Righteous

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: SJ Manning <sjmanning () fymc com>
Date: July 29, 2010 7:23:47 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>, David Farber <dfarber () cs cmu edu>, David Farber <dfarber () cmu edu>
Subject: Tears For The Righteous
Reply-To: sjmanning () fymc com

Dear Dave.

For IP if you wish....

I am no poet.  Yet, I wrote the following few, perhaps awkward lines on the occasion of the passing of somebody dear to 
me, someone I considered righteous.  Perhaps of little consolation, but helpful - at least for me - to rationalize the 
passing of someone righteous.

With my thoughts and my best wishes.  Steve.

Tears For The Righteous
By Steven J. Manning

> From ashes to ashes, dust to dust, or equivalents of that in my “book”, perhaps yours,
The righteous, the frivolous, the productive and malevolent, alike
The creator brings into the world and ordains their passing, alike.

The footpath of life, same for all, but for
The righteous walk with bewilderment and purpose.
The frivolous with nary a glance beneath their feet, trampling the flowers under.
The productive with focus and regretfully wasteful haste.
And the malevolent, at the expense of all others.

Our destination same.  From dust to dust is pre-ordained.
How unfair for the Creator to be so compassionate to all.   But for,
Belief in a purpose so esoteric to test the conscious mind.
Suspend intellect.
And task the soul.  

For the passing of the righteous, the departure of the soul, 
Makes way for yet another of the righteous.
Somewhere, somewhere in the world, perhaps next door
Or conceivably even in some Darfurian place God elected to forsake,
An ordinary woman brings into the world an extraordinary child.

Ordained to greatness.  On a footpath to change the world.

Sorrow salted tears for the righteous slowly, painfully, thoughtfully, give way.
Bittersweet tears of fleeting smiles.
Resignation.  Anticipation. Hope.
And then memories to feed the living.

One righteous soul making way on earth for another.

Dignified remembrance in passing earned by dignity in living.  



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