Poem for Tom by Susan Gately

 
What makes it so unbearableWas the manner of your leaving:Unspeakable act of momentary madnessTook our brave knight away.

Night turned to day

And in bright light

I see the man I knew

Yet never knew

In all your fine complexity.

How beautiful you are.

I wish I’d realised the myriad layers of being

That lay within your life.

I know it now and give glory:

Man, fully realised.

by S.G.