How Should We Remember the Strong

How should we remember the strong?
There were not many who had her wit,
and that angular grace
she used to deliver her homely truths
was only hers. We will not forget her,
or that fiercest face
whose challenge was to hardship,
and whose welcome gave to life
and love
and laughter
each, in sparkling eyes
that will not die,
a warm and honored place.

October 14 2010