Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Rik George writes

Epitaph

Stranger passing by, 

stop and rest your feet. 
Watch the butterflies 
dance on the summer wind 
before my marble eyes
that cannot see their wings. 
Watch them, while you still can, 
under the summer skies. 
They don’t dance long, stranger.


Butterfly of Death --Yury Krylou

1 comment:


  1. If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

    ― H.L. Mencken

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