John-Ward Leighton

GOOD BYE TO OUR YOUTH – GOOD BYE TO YOUR SHINNING TRUTH

i never knew him
except through his poems
he was rap before there was rap
truth before the bombast
of the gangsta

good bye Gil
we will sing your poems
before our aging memory
forgets

somehow
Emmylou says it best
but
the revolution will not be televised

so in the instant of our despair
blind sided by that thief called grief
we wish our goodbyes
could fill the hole of your absence
in our existential existence
and soften the blow
in what could be seen
as a
good bye to our youth
and a
good bye to your shinning truth
and through my tears starring
so

R.I.P. Gil Scott Heron