Encased in Memory

 

I was not present when he died

but far away in a different world

Yet I could see him in his coffin

composed and peaceful

He had earned this

after a gruelling life

They buried him in a Church Yard

close to the west door.

He would not have minded

it was at mother's insistence

I was not there but I saw him

a noble figure still with dignity intact

His memory will never diminish

as I was his eldest son