A Fixed Memory Of Carlos... My 14 Year Old Uncle Poem by Richard Ford Bunuel Whale Carnegie Edison Simon Hitchcock Welles Christ Antunes Rodriguez Kubrick

A Fixed Memory Of Carlos... My 14 Year Old Uncle
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You Were Handsome Carlos
But Ultimately Stayed A Boy
Because In Death
You Remain The Age You Die
And In Not Having Lived Longer
You Live On In Memory
In Those Who Loved You
You Were Blonde And The Youngest Of Five
My Father Spoke Of You
In Retrospect
You Were A Teen
Like The Way He Last Saw You
Forever Child Born From Mother
My Future Grandmother As It Were
You Were The Most Unfortunate
Since You Never Grew Up
You Stayed Innocent In Memory
We Didn't Get A Chance To Meet
But Never Shall I See You
Amongst The Living
You Died Of Septic Shock
My 14 Year Old Uncle
Upon Never Reaching The Present Year
Or An Elder Age Amongst The Modern Day
You Lived In Youth
And Died Amidst A Far Off Past
To Never Meet Your Siblings' Children
You Will Always Be 14
What Makes You Stronger
Is A Strength In Family
You Had A Family That Adored You
But Alas You Will Become A Memory In Fade
Like A Photograph That Ages
All That Remains Of You Is In The Living
Your Mother Has Died
And So Too Has Your Father
Your Siblings All Remain
But We Never Got To Meet
And In Not Meeting
A Loss For What Could Have Been
Carlos You Are My Uncle
And In Blood Lineage You Shall Be
Loved By Those Who Still Breathe
Beautiful And Transfixing
As New Fallen Snow...
A Memory.