requiem
This has been a sad week. The close of March closed a huge chapter in my family’s life. On March 31st, we lost my father-in-law after a five year battle with the enemy, cancer. He was a wonderful, warm person, who never met a stranger. Popsie, you’ll be missed so much. Your loss has put even me at a loss for words. No words can soften the blow or fill the great void your passing has left.
In memory of my father in law…who was more of a father to me than my own…
Winston Douglas Traylor
September 14, 1943 - March 31, 2008
Husband, Father, Grandfather, Brother, Friend
I can’t help but remember this poem by Emily Dickinson:
Safe in their alabaster chambers,
Untouched by morning and untouched by noon,
Sleep the meek members of the resurrection,
Rafter of satin, and roof of stone.
Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine;
Babbles the bee in a stolid ear;
Pipe the sweet birds in ignorant cadence -
Ah, what sagacity perished here!
Grand go the years in the crescent above them;
Worlds scoop their arcs, and firmaments row,
Diadems drop and Doges surrender,
Soundless as dots on a disk of snow.~Emily Dickinson