For my brother 30.01.1937 - 13.05.2021

No one lives forever - today that's been brought home to me,

And never send to know for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee, you see.

No recent answer to the telephone and emails that were ignored...

The mind conjured up its reasons - perhaps he just got bored

With the expectations that went with the thought.: Reply you idle man!

You're happy enough to get them so respond - you know you can!

But the delay became a niggling thing - a growing sort of worry

And finally brought a decision to contact the police down in Surrey

Requesting them to pay a safety check as daylight turned to night,

But the longer they took the more it looked that something wasn't right.

Until there came that insistent knock that summoned me to my door,

Outside stood two local plod: my brother had been found dead on the floor.

Collapsed while getting ready for rest - perhaps looking forward to his bed

But destined never to reach it before death.revealed its reaper's head.

He always possessed an independent spirit  that left so much in its wake,

I try to think of the laughs and the good times but still there is this ache..

But it seems he exited this existence without the curse of chronic pain

And I wish him a reincarnation of simiar reward should he ever come back again.

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RIP

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