IMAGINE FOREVER
Peace, love
and sadness.
A man falls,
even before his time,
my time,
but a legend rises.
As a phoenix from flames,
a new life,
a fresh level of existence.
Not a holy idol,
not even a false one,
but imagine,
an image, forever.
An idea
in human form.
Shots to silence backfire,
voices cry out,
voices rise above,
voices carry on.
Angels lose sleep,
and a generation,
a second generation,
mourns and weeps;
but imagine,
a message, forever.
Magic and music;
A life spelled out
in song.
A beat, a heart beat
that goes on.
A session,
of love making,
that never ends,
and includes us all.
A dream,
we were all forced out of.
But imagine,
imagine forever.

12/08/05
for John, twenty-fives years later.