Little Gray

For M and M

Little gray, gone on –

Treading softly into the dawn

You haven’t been forgotten;

You will, in fact, remain

Where grass and sky meet rain

As fog, and in the shadows

On the chair.

Little gray, we miss you

But it seems you heard your cue

So you have gone on

Treading softly into the dawn

On paws of spirit and cloud

To spurn the laps

Of angels.

Little gray, remind  

Us, whom you’ve left behind,

That in the end all days must close

And fade from blue

To gray and rose;

From life, which seems

So permanent 

We'll see you in our dreams. 

G