IMMORTAL

Oh yes, he's here, right here, right now
In those lives that still go on;
In their memories, in their minds,
In their warm, embracing love.

He did not go so very far,
Though when the curtain fell between
And there was emptiness
Where he had been
It might have seemed the unseen hand
Had flung him into farthest space;
That he was gone, untracked and lost,
That just a husk remained.

Not so.

The 'he' they loved has never gone.
The essence of his very being
Is here, right now -
A burning light,
Brilliant, bright
Reflected in those tears
That fell -
Reflected in them still.