To Brandon India, wherever you may now be.

This is a tribute to all the families facing the death of a loved one and all the people facing those families. May you all have lived life to its fullest and take solace, in at the very least, that fact alone.


Watching waywardly as time approaches
means life is passing you by.

One dives head-first as one indulges
without the question of why.

Only later does the wind throw back your caution
into your now realistic face.

The drones of life come calling
when life then slows its pace.

The moments are few and far among
when freedom and circumstance meet.

When cares far away have been flung
and responsibility seems to retreat.

Grasp strongly such times in gentle hands
the nexus that harmony wrought.

For life that's lived often itself demands
much more than just what we've sought.