He folds his aged hands one over the other
reaches for his goatee every so many words
laughs easy while he says he was married
to the love of his life: "64 years, 3 months,
and so many days." "I miss her," he says.
A lion among men. He is living history,
beautiful in his recall; steadfast as a
teacher. Many tell him often how important
he is, how he occupies a place of honor
in my development and that of so many others.
He seems genuinely shocked, unable
to grasp that he is a universe all by
himself and we are stargazers, watching
the milky way, following his north star
as we trip to locate our own place to stand.
© Valerie Bridgeman
November 16, 2013
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