I heard that you just set off on a journey all alone

Dec 15, 2024

I heard, my friend, that you just set off

on a journey all alone. You'd said

that you wanted to touch an ocean

you'd never seen before,

that you wanted to find a wave

which could take you to waters

which would be sweet to taste

and gentle to touch.

You'd said you'd known love and pain,

often at the same time, and though there

were shadows, there was never any doubt.

If you'd only asked,

I would have told you that you were kind,

and were thus with those who made

their hearts a matter of life:

I would have told you - you are beautiful.

And though this earth will never cease

its spinning, I know there's a still point now,

a drop in the ocean, forever in awe

of the gentlest soul who ever sailed by.

For Ravi. No one like him.

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