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You may be saddened by my parting
You may be saddened by my parting
Perhaps a reflection of what I meant to you
But please my friends you ought to know,
I was ready, that I knew
The world is one I no longer know
And one which I am content to be denied
For as much as there have been so many good things in my life
There have been many bad things beside
I’m no longer looking to the future
Or I’m despondent as to what that will be
As successive governments have laid bare our land
Its heart, its sole, its destiny
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You, good friends, may share my viewsOr maybe that’s not the case
Whatever, as these are my parting words,
Please bear with me with humour and grace You have been in my life and I in yours,
That we both do know
And I thank you for all the joys you have brought
Before it was time for me to go. Your kindness, caring and thoughtful acts,
The times we spent together,
Will be remembered, shared, recalled and shared again
Over the days ahead and indeed forever I wish you well over the years ahead
And despite my doom and gloom
Hope that life for you and all about
Is as scented as a rose in bloom.
About the Author
Keith Stokes-Smith was brought up in Solihull, moving to Worcestershire in 1997. Writing poems came easy to him in his twenties and early thirties.
In 2016, his mother passed away. Two weeks later, on a train journey to London, he belatedly wrote a bespoke poem for her funeral and wrote it as if she had composed it to be read out by her at her funeral; a strange concept you might think. From then on he found himself uncontrollably inspired to write more adopting words spoken by fictitious people of fictitious ages in fictitious circumstances. In essence, he has tried to be in the mind of the reader. His poems may be considered somewhat unique coupled very often with them having a sense of humour.
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