Poetry submitted by MMF on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 2:22PM :

I said
Hey, tell me your stories
About your days of glory
When you chased the ladies that you loved
And had a broken heart from one

I miss
Those times you wrote to me
About being so carefree
Living among nature’s wonders and
Striving to be free

I remember
Well the afternoons we talked
Until the sun turned into the moon and
Laughed about some incidents that
Seemed to be embarrassing
but now a joke between two friends who
Loved to talk about way back when

I think
Of times when your depression hit
And you held on to me
Your friend
Across the country from you then
But always there when you’d
Hit send
The message came onto my screen
And I said Hey, Dave talk to me

I tried
To sooth your pain away
With words so soft you
Had to listen
To the melody that I had written
With the small part of your heart
That had not been hidden
From me

I say
Now let me tell his life stories
Of his days of glory
He wrote to me of happy times
When life was on his side

There were times when he was
So carefree
Like feeding doe and fawn and buck
So the city kids could see the
Mystery of nature when given just
A tiny bit of Human kindness

He fixed an owl’s wing and
Set it free and watched as it
Flew gallantly into the trees
He said he cried as he saw
The owl perched high above
Looking down on him as if to say
Thanks my friend

Let me tell you his life stories.....

MMF