Ishmael Greets all friends who have departed, <br />dancing between monuments to recall, <br />chin-wagging for moments of acceptance: <br />Observing life as not the end of all. <br />Philosophy: a marbled endurance; <br />Truths ever to be reiterated. <br /> <br />Ishmael always has reiterated <br />(to newcomers and to the departed) <br />so much more than simple endurance <br />and listing moments that we could recall, <br />that redeem us from what will come of all. <br />Too late though to face up to acceptance. <br /> <br />“Get a dog and learn then of acceptance! ” <br />- a thesis ever reiterated <br />for the enlightenment of one and all. <br />Ishmael councils all but the departed, <br />to whom he chants melodies that recall <br />the banality of their endurance. <br /> <br />Ishmael posits life and our endurance, <br />Painting strokes and ideals of acceptance <br />on old yew trees that will later recall; <br />echoing in trunks, reiterated <br />in song and in words of the departed, <br />a solemn commemoration for all. <br /> <br />Ishmael’s audience is within us all, <br />his disquisition tests our endurance, <br />ringing long after we have departed. <br />This being our canine acceptance, <br />responding to themes, reiterated. <br />A comfort that we will never recall. <br /> <br />Ishmael demands of others to recall <br />our Furies, our happiness and our all; <br />our aphorisms reiterated, <br />relaying memories of endurance. <br />Shed tears; testing limits of acceptance <br />of those beloved and now departed. <br /> <br />We may never measure our endurance, <br />having entered here without acceptance. <br />Oh, and wither Ishmael now? Departed? <br /><br />Denis O'Driscoll<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pages-from-the-dark-ages/
