El Condor Pasa

Simon and Garfunkel sang, “I’d rather be a sparrow than a snail.”

The best ones cultivate love, they fly, soar.

Sometimes lessons are excruciating. What a marvelous human our world lost this year – last week. Piercing pain.

I will miss Eric for all time. A long time.

Decades ahead, he will be in my heart, words, there, here, always.

“I’d rather be a hammer than a nail.” “I’d rather be a forest than a street.” Simon & Garfunkel nearly get it…

But, I’d rather be with you. Together. All things go… God/the Universe/Time: thank you. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Out of sight, out of mind… Almost. Except:

Death is real, and I cry sometimes.

So influential, you are.

You were.

He becomes past tense and it is synonymous with sorrow.

The end, el fin.