Last Words - Rebecca del Rio

[Larry Robinson]

Last Words
for Harry

I love you, repeated
Four times over
Your daughter, ours
Listening to your breath
Quiet as the moments
Between the chimes
On the Hour. 

I love you, you
Told her. I stood
outside your circle
Self-exile of years
Years that allowed us
To love each other
In ways marriage couldn't. 

I love you
your gift to her,
To me to know
Your anger, disappointment 
Dissipated.

I love you, you said 
To who? What?
Four times over. 
The penultimate perhaps to Life
The last to Love itself
As you fell into eternity's embrace.

	- Rebecca del Rio
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