The Offer To A Friend Who Died.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

a friend died
just this morning.
cancer of the breast
suffering for years.
now she died,
rested.
some friends are
crying saying they
will miss her.
her husband and two
grown up children with
work and life of their
own,
attend the cremation rights.

i think i am the odd
man out
deep within i am happy.
she finally found
the door to heaven.

away from all her
sufferings she looks down
upon us
with all pity and
apprehensions.

we should have envied
her, for from dust to dust
she had returned

i offer my prayers,
but i will not be cutting
any flower from my
own little garden.