Away

Pictures show us a place you went to long ago

Such a far shore and yet you adapted, listening

To the land around you, canoeing down their rivers

Being at the barracks and having a pet monkey

And the pinup mom was jealous of in the middle

When your mind went because of the Parkinson's

Mom called, "quick come save them," you were

Cutting them to pieces, this other life so far from us

I don't think we ever know what that sacrifice meant

Yet it shaped the person you were to us, we have

Found those ways to find home, even when far away

Thanks