Make of Me Whatever You Desire

May 31, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Memorial Day, which falls on May 30.

Today’s poem is a Memorial Day epitaph for a fallen soldier.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Make of me whatever you desire.

Empty me of everything but you.

Memory's the light without the fire,

Offering what now will have to do.

Remember me for your sake, not for mine.

I'm nothing now but what you want to see,

A well-wrought miniature of your design,

Laid to rest within your marquetry.

Days of longing are for you alone

As I turn slowly into soil and stone,

Yielding what means nothing more to me.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/makeof.html. For more Memorial Day poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/memorialdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Memorial Day.

May 30: Maybe in the Grip of Pain

May 31: Make of Me Whatever You Desire