Paying no <br />attention to Death <br /> <br />or any such <br />niceities <br /> <br />I enter <br />the photograph <br /> <br />clamber up <br />upon her lap <br /> <br />cling to her <br />apron <br /> <br />of stars & <br />flowers <br /> <br />curl up <br />in her lap <br /> <br />& go to sleep <br /> <br />just as I did <br />when I was six <br /> <br />I tell her <br />as I have always <br />told her: <br /> <br />'I love you <br />Granny! ' <br /> <br />'Shhhh! ' she sighs 'Shhhh! ' <br />and strokes my sleeping hair. <br /> <br />Death furious <br />at this breaking of <br /> <br />protocol.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/protocol-for-lyn/
