Goodbye Alan
Goodbye husband, brother, father, trusted friend.
Death cannot steal our fondness for you,
cannot compel us to bring your memory to an end.
Goodbye Alan.
Goodbye healer, humanist, humorist, creative mind.
Death cannot hide your gentle spirit,
cannot expunge the image of one so patient and so kind.
Goodbye Alan.
The pain has gone; rest now; be still and claim the peace,
the freedom from life’s past suffering and travail.
Take with you now our love that will endure and never cease.
For Alan Clark, who passed in April, 2008