Thursday, May 1, 2008

May Day Poem

Who was Gary Dale Rose?

I sat on his bench today,
In a park
Facing a pond.
Just a simple concrete bench;
Rather hard,
A little cold.

He is sadly missed, it seems,
By his wife
And all his kids,
Or so says the small plaque
At my feet
Set in the stone

Do they come and sit here now
And think back,
And smile, and cry?
He was 50 when he died.
I'm 52,
So I wonder...

Who was Gary Dale Rose?

1 comment:

Lynet said...

Who was Gary Dale Rose? Was he the man that I knew in Texas? I see this and the age is right. I was once married to a Gary Dale Rose... could this be the same man?

Lynet