Ali, the greatest died last week
The Prince died a few weeks ago
The King died few decades ago
Tributes in words, in prints
In churches and in gatherings
Poured remembering them
How great they were as creators,
As persons and as trailblazers

I wish so much that
Each of them could hear and savor
Tributes endowed posthumously
To make him larger than life
I wish it could make a difference in his life
To energize to be more of him
Or should we succumb to the idea
A good composer is a dead composer?

The loss of a genius
Either tragically by self-infliction
Or by the ravage of a disease
Signals the end of a chapter
But leaves a baton to be carried by another
Ambitious and trailblazer individual
To get tribute posthumously.
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June 6, 2016