A Complicated Death (Poem)

How to mourn you?

Only with detachment can I find room

For kindness and compassion towards you.

You struggled just as all do,

And I wish to think you did your best.

Some of your actions and words still linger with gray-tinged hurt,

But now I can feel sorrow over these rather than resentment.

When I speak at your service,

I will recount one of the few memories I have

That cast you in your best light.

May you find in this death peace from suffering,

An end to chasing illusory dreams, and the fade of your red anger.

I laid down the burden of these long ago.

Now may you do the same.