Passing On

Passing On 10/24

(in memoriam, Evelyn Josephine McDonald Simmons) 

9/10/1922-10/23/10

10

A life is but a process of passing on gifts.

23

Passing on colds

Passing on coughdrops

Passing on humor

Passing on knowledge

Passing on love

Passing on life

Passing on kindness

Passing on.

10

And finally, in the end, we too must pass on.

We give back what has been gifted to us

for it is all only in passing, fleeting as snow.

In the end, if we've lived life well

If we've lived our lives sharing

We've little to give back, 

and so we pass on

Willing,

Peaceful,

Beautiful.

finis.