Good By

Oh power!
Oh will!
Oh great super word!

Your premises are blemishes
meant to diminish our demises
so that the soil does not touch
that which we always failed
to describe.

Perhaps in eulogy.
Possibly obit.
Or in memoriam,
in a well-written
memoir.

Or when the ashes
are flying out of the
can, can we see
what we could not
say all those days
you were still here?