The True Importance

The true importance of the life
and death of a great man
is not to be sought in the monuments,
nor in the sayings and doings of those that
came after him.
Nor can it be summed up with a few strokes
of the pen; it is all written
in his deeds while he lived,
in his works, and death speaks the last
words of his story.
He hurtled into the void like a falling meteor,
while others died in tears of the clarity.
Like that of a thunder clap and goes to his end as he lived;
in a tempest;
as in a drama of Shakespeare. . .

Nov 30/99