, Darling Beloved Poem by Louise Tredoux

Your lament on my having to leave
for a short while was touching and
sweet, you know it is but a short mo-
ment in time, I will be home again to
listen to your thoughts, react to your
moods, calm your mind at the onset
of a temper, share your life, dispel
clouds of loneliness before they can
rain on your joie de vivre

Point out the flowers to you, showing
that you are the sun to me, I am the
moon revolving around you, nobody
else holds my attention like you do,
though I am not physically present,
living means Rudi to me, do not fret,
my darling beloved, I am returning to
you as soon as my duty is done, a
funeral, a birth into a new form of life

an uncle bereft, we all have to face
death some time, let us prepare by
enlarging the love in our hearts…