In Memory of Someone I Never Knew

I was not present when you died

And I would not have wanted to be.

Many things should never happen at all

But if they must

Better during the early hours, before we wake.

I did not know you

Though I would have liked to.

Quiet royalty, brought low

Broken body on an earthen pyre, consecrating the soil

even in death.

Though it is wrong

I mourn you,

One of millions.

You are past and present.

I will miss you.