Lesser Lights

 

GOD BLESS THE LESSER LIGHTS: THE UNDISTINGUISHED, UNEXTINGUISHED.

 

The Lesser Lights

God bless the lesser lights:

Those lives lived on a small scale;

Those names that never lit a neon sign,

Nor graced a magazine cover,

But are forever etched in stone—

In mostly-neglected, weed-strewn tombstone;

Whose memory is faded, even to those that loved them.

Their time here too short.

Their time gone too long.

God bless the forgotten:

Their lives unremarkable;

Their achievements unrecorded;

Their influence unstated, underestimated, under-appreciated,

But not unfelt,

Not unimportant.

God bless the too-soon departed—

The light they gave,

The light they give,

The lives they touched…

And touch still.

March 21,2012