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A Chant Against Death
A Chant Against Death - Mervyn Morris
A Chant Against Death
(for Aidan & Ruth)
say family
say friends
say wife
say love
say life
say learning
laughter
sunlight
rain
say cycle
circle
music
memory
say night & day
say sun & moon
say
see you soon
from I been there, sort of: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2006), copyright Mervyn Morris 2006, used by permission of the author and the publisher.