From The Sky

by Gay Reiser Cannon
(Port Aransas, TX)

For Don Cannon

You were a star
Dropped into a child
You were a joy that became a jewel
You were a drop of truth in a desert of doubt
You were ideas in a research and development drought
You were not polarized
By politics, ambition, religion
You were hewn from the tree of reason.
In your eyes we saw visions
Of what you would do, of what we could be.

You were a star
You burned too hot
You left a black hole in our hearts.


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