'Death is a somewhere else <br />altogether...' <br /> <br />'I would like to <br />travel there! ' <br /> <br />'I see no future <br />in the past... <br /> <br />the Present <br />is where I <br /> <br />live & laugh! ' <br /> <br />As if to emphasise <br />the point <br /> <br />all her wrinkles <br />laughed at once <br /> <br />reminding me <br />of a caricature <br /> <br />of W.H. Auden <br />I had once seen. <br /> <br />Nexf day <br />a day shy of her <br /> <br />84th birthday <br /> <br />tired of carrying her life <br />around with her <br /> <br />she simply <br />put her years down <br /> <br />and left for that <br />somewhere else altogether <br /> <br />leaving only <br />a smile that seemed to say <br /> <br />'Gone for Lunch <br /> -be back in an eternity.'<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-being-84-in-84/
