Refusing to believe that diagnosis attests your
avoidance of unpalatable reality; oh, there are
mitigating circumstances and younger friend’s
life-expectancy pales your objectiveness - you
reckoned they got it wrong - he’ll outlast me is
your belief - it lessens pain of facing death, an
inference your friendship is forged everlasting
from the fierce furnaces you’d faced together
There’s great sadness viewing an indomitable
personality fade away - and the protest you’d
voice parlays vulnerabilities you’ll never cede
as a defence - yet John Wasson is gone, and
the void equates a silent witness to the years
we’d been bonded close as soldier mates
© 19 April 2016, I. D. Carswell
LtCol (Ret) John Wasson passed away 17 April 2016
peacefully at his family home in Heretaunga, New Zealand
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