I awaken at 6.00 a.m. and listen
to our President’s address
memorializing Nelson Mandela
and lay crying in the darkness
of a 6.00 a.m. time difference
between there and here, the dancing
swaying music of the background
behind the podium a fitting
accompaniment as one man –
the first of his kind to lead a nation
in this hemisphere pays homage
to another one-of-a-kind man in
his own place and time
with my tears and ears, I too
paid homage and then went
and made Christmas candy
and watched the snow fall
life going on
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