TO MADELEINE: IN MEMORIUM
We are present here to mourn
Dreams fulfilled and dreams ...(unborn)
Remember, and to celebrate
With some rhymes you'll help ... (create)
She was loved, and she was flawed
A brilliant mind with interests ... (broad)
Urban legends, coffee roast
Freud, I think she loved the ... (most)
She could name your stance and mood
Told your truth, though never ... (rude)
Joined you where you hoped to be
Named your strengths to set you ... (free).
Those who loved her came to visit
She was feisty full of ...(spirit)
A clumsy aide had hurt her thrice
She hit back, cause why be ...(nice)?
Her room was filled with food and gift
Her friends were present every ...(shift)
She gets an email, gets a call
Madeleine's a fire-...(ball)
How can someone with such passion
Who didn't care for fad or ... (fashion)
Whose sensibility's unique,
grow so sickly, grow so ... (weak)
Madeleine our anger's rising
Were you here you'd be ... (advising)
How to cope without you here
To live your absence every ... (year).
Madeleine who loved James Joyce
We'll miss your thoughts we'll miss your ...(voice)
We'll miss your love, we'll miss your mind
I think its us who's left ... (behind)
Larrry Hirschhorn Jan 10, 2004