Lives Float Away

            “Leaves fall, and flowers die, lives float away”
                                 -Louis L’Amour

How easy for us to say that he shouldn’t have done it
And left behind the ending of his life
Sorrows found and written up as part
Of a gently worded police report

For we didn’t know that the sunlit days
We shared were to him a greyscape of despair
That he was shadowed and haunted by fears
And we were shadowed through our ignorance

How easy for us to say that he shouldn’t have done it
How easy to make excuses for ourselves